Recent content by proteus459

The settings I refer to are found through either the control panel/device manager >> mouse. Specifically, mouse properties >> hardware >> properties >> general >> change settings >> power management >> uncheck "allow device to wake computer". I have also considered having Win 7 turn off the...

I realize that the MS Wireless Mouse is not Windows hardware but I don't know where else to ask. The MS wireless mouse 5000s used in both my Win 7 and Win 8.1 systems ignore their power management setting that is supposed to prevent mouse movement from waking the systems from "sleep". The...

The links appear identical on 2 systems, a new all-in-one and mine with an NEC monitor. My computer tech (Microsoft Certified Everything) remoted in this morning to have a look and was at a loss for a solution. We both figured that if the fault was a monitor adjustment, installing the Firefox...

Since I have had Win 7, 64-bit installed. The colors of visited and unvisited links in both IE 10 and Firefox 17.0.8 ESR have been annoyingly similar to my aging eyes. Unvisited is a muted blue and visited is a muted purple only slightly different from the blue. In XP my links were an obvious...

The run command works exactly as hoped...the system wakes from sleep to run the selected scheduled tasks and then promptly returns to sleep state. rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0 If any one has an interest, he expanded the task library under Windows in the left side bar of the...

The fellow that build/maintains my system (Jeff) says that I can not have been seeing what I think I'm seeing since I have the sleep timer in "power options" set to "never" to keep the computer from dosing off during the day and there is nothing he is aware of in the task scheduler settings...

I appreciate your time and suggestions. My IT fellow is coming today. He has built me a new Win8 all-in-one system and is ready to install it. He has always preferred that I keep my black thumb out of the works so I will present him with your observations and ideas. It has to be something that...

Specifically which settings would you remove and what would you do immediately after removing them to make the computer ready to accept new settings? Just restart the computer? Well, not really. My goal is to have the tasks run during the night while the computer is no in use. I would prefer to...

Hello... I will have someone more knowledgeable than I look at the event viewers but I know that no hardware is involved as none has been added changed that might be waking the system. As for the tasks themselves I have disabled and reenabled both backup and restore and scheduled them to run...

Within the past month or so I've noticed that my Win7 SP1 desktop has stopped returning to sleep after the task scheduler runs any one of the 3 scheduled tasks for which "wake the computer..." is set as a condition. I put the system to sleep each night with "defrag", "restore" and "backup" set...

Thanks, but isn't that what I did? From my posting above:

Once upon a time I had a small icon (it might have even been an arrowhead) in the lower right corner of my display near the clock in the notification area. With it I could open a menu along the right edge of the screen of all of the items on my desktop. I could open this menu over the existing...

Thanks... that corrected the situation. Now I'd like to discover what caused it in the first place??

Windows 7 HP has suddenly started to create headers for the alphabetical groups it has started to organize the contents of my flash drives into. Here is an example: The headers were not there last week, they have not been there since the system was built a year ago, they are not on the drives...

I recently created a library to contain the video media I either create or download. I would like to add it to the right side of the Start menu where Pictures, Documents and Music already reside. I can't use drag and drop to an open Start menu because as soon as I click the mouse on amything...