In a strange way I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having this problem.
Does anyone know if the login screen for vista has it's own power profile?
This might explain it because if I resume from sleep, but don't login, my
computer will power down after a couple minutes. If there is, how do we
change its settings?

I hope someone will figure this out. This is currently the only task I run
waking the computer from sleep. But I do have more I would like to start
running.

Thanks in advance,

Timdog


"bob.cronin@gmail.com" wrote:

> On Mar 7, 6:10 pm, "Victoria House [MSFT]"
> <vho...@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like a question for theTask Schedulerteam - have you had this issue
> > with any other tasks? Is defrag the only one you're trying to run fromsleep?
> >
> > "Timdog" <tred...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> >
> > news:21AA04FD-98D0-4A76-A2AF-060FF360561D@microsoft.com...
> >
> > > Having some trouble with my defragment task. I set up a scheduled task to
> > >wakethe computer and run defragment. The computer at the appropriate
> > > time starts, but shuts off approximately 2 minutes later for a minute,
> > > then starts up again only to keep repeating this until I actually logon.
> > > I have the timer for the power profile under the main user tosleepafter
> > > 2 hours, but this keeps happening. Sleepotherwise works properly.
> > > Does anyone know how to get this to run without this shutdown/startup
> > > happening?
>
> I have this same issue. Any task I schedule with the "wake up the
> computer" option set (as well as "run whether user is logged on or
> not" and "run with highest privileges") will wake the PC and the task
> will start, but the system falls back to sleep again 60 seconds later,
> even as the task is still running (ignoring my preferences in this
> regard in my power profile, to not go back to sleep for an hour). I
> have had it fall asleep in the middle of a virus scan, imaging my C
> drive, defragging my C drive, etc. No matter what the task, it wakes
> up, starts running but falls asleep again in 60 seconds, I am involved
> in a running conversation with MS support on this (Case:
> SRX1030236402). I've made it past level 1, but still no progress.
> --
> bc
>
>