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<blockquote data-quote="Doron" data-source="post: 165478" data-attributes="member: 18426">Don't know why is MP changing the native Windows suspend behaviorI really do not understand why the MP guys did those complicated things with the suspend issue, and so causing Windows not to handle standby properly. (Don't get me wrong, they generally do a great job).Here are some facts, at least on my computer:1. The native Windows Task Scheduler works very well. It wakes up the computer from s3 to do a task, and puts it back to s3 right when the task is finished. Other media center software use it to schedule recordings and it works perfectly there.2. When you have a Wake On LAN enabled, remotely accessing the hard drives wakes up the computer without turning on the monitor, and after a short while the computer goes back to s3 mode automatically.3. Even when some program prevents getting to s3 automatically, after you put the computer to s3 manually, the described above in (1) and (2) is still work.After updating to the latest revisons of MP, and activating Powerscheduler, most ofl the above stopped&nbsp; working properly. Now the system never goes back to suspend mode by itself. My impression is that MP is messing up with the system settings. A think that no application should do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doron, post: 165478, member: 18426"] [b]Don't know why is MP changing the native Windows suspend behavior[/b] I really do not understand why the MP guys did those complicated things with the suspend issue, and so causing Windows not to handle standby properly. (Don't get me wrong, they generally do a great job). Here are some facts, at least on my computer: 1. The native Windows Task Scheduler works very well. It wakes up the computer from s3 to do a task, and puts it back to s3 right when the task is finished. Other media center software use it to schedule recordings and it works perfectly there. 2. When you have a Wake On LAN enabled, remotely accessing the hard drives wakes up the computer without turning on the monitor, and after a short while the computer goes back to s3 mode automatically. 3. Even when some program prevents getting to s3 automatically, after you put the computer to s3 manually, the described above in (1) and (2) is still work. After updating to the latest revisons of MP, and activating Powerscheduler, most ofl the above stopped working properly. Now the system never goes back to suspend mode by itself. My impression is that MP is messing up with the system settings. A think that no application should do. [/QUOTE]

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