The .Default user is the user when there isn't one. This is NOT the same as
Default user but <Dot>Default. You will find her settings here in the
registry
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT

"Timdog" <Timdog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:282D3CEB-D551-4E00-A8B0-46B88AAAC516@microsoft.com...
> 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
>>
>>