Opening up the Control Panel made standby to work

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Schockal

Hi there, I posted about my standby problem on XPE and did not get a
response. But I found out a solution. Before going to standby if I go ahead
and open up the control panel window that makes the standby to work. I am not
sure what happens when you open up the control panel may be there is some
power related stuff is getting initialized. Could someone help me out ?

Whats the relation between control panel and power stuff (standby) ?.


Thanks
SC
 
I noticed that it has to do with the explorer.exe process size, if the
process size is less than 15,000 K standby doesn't work. To validate this
theory I rebooted the box and opened up the task manager after a fresh
reboot. The explorer process size was around 12,000 K and I tried the standby
feature and it failed (meaning that it went to standby but never wakes up).
Then as a second test I rebooted the machine and opened up the task manager
and the explorer's process size was 12K , I opened up a windows explorer
shell and the process size increased to 15K. I tried the standby feature and
it worked. I don't know what is going on. Please help.

thanks
SC
 
It was just a coincidence that the standby was working when I opened up the
explorer window. It works 70% of the time. I am not sure .. I spent too much
time on this stupid problem. I saw similar postings on other forums, I am not
sure if there is a hotfix from MS.
 
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