question Alarm Clock

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mike
  • Start date Start date
M

Mike

Hallo,

I am a very satisfied user of Talking Alarm Clock from Cinnamon Software,
however I have one small problem. When a alarm goes off, my computer resumes
from standby. What do I have to change to prevent this? I read something about
the files *.job in the Tasks folder but I could not find any *.job file (hidden
files/folders are shown).

Can anyone help me?

Greetings,
Mike

Alarm Clock Version 1.1
Window XP Pro SP1 (Dutch)
Microsoft Agent version 2.0 (Dutch)
Standby To Ram (S3)
 
"Standby" by it's very nature is a powered down or sleep mode for the
computer. Any such activity as you describe, will "wake" the computer and
that is by design. There may be a registry hack for this but I know of no
system level option that will prevent an application that becomes active
from waking the system.
 
Unless there's something provided for within the options of the application,
as far as I know, no.

This is an "Alarm clock" that you have set, it's only doing what you've
programmed it to do, to alert you as long as the system is booted.

There are applications that have reminder features, MS Outlook (as opposed
to Outlook Express, Outlook is a module of MS Office and is sold as a part
of the suite or stand alone) has such a feature and I don't think it will
wake the system out of standby but will alert you the next time the
application is opened. There are other such applications with reminder
features as well but you have set an alarm clock application to alert you at
a specific time and it appears to be doing that and that will wake the
system. Now, if the system is set to go into standby at a specified
interval after being idle, the system can return to standby under those
conditions even though the alarm has gone off and previously brought the
system out of standby.
 
Back
Top