So, I've looked everywhere for a solution to this, but most people seem
to be having trouble waking up from sleep.

My problem is that if I leave an application running overnight (ArcMap
- labeling a large map) my machine goes to sleep at the scheduled time,
even though it is still busy.

I guess my main question is, what are the criteria for determining when
the system is idle? Is it just keyboard/mouse movement, or cpu, or
memory use...? I would have thought that the idle time would not start
counting until labeling is finished, but this is clearly not the case.

It looks like I have two options:
1. Disable sleep on the nights I'm going to leave ArcMap running (a bit
of a pain, when these things should work automatically).
2. Disable sleep permanently (wasting power etc.).

I did find some information on system 'shutdown'
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ndsession.asp),
so maybe the answer is for ESRI to add code to ArcMap to veto shutdown.
Life would be easier if MS had just done their job better.


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jmorris

Hi .Joe

That does work, but I was kind of hoping I could get the machine to
sleep when it had finished doing what it was doing, you know to save
power and the planet and everything. I guess I'll just have to leave it
on.

Thanks anyway.


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jmorris

jmorris wrote:


Hi .Joe

That does work, but I was kind of hoping I could get the machine to
sleep when it had finished doing what it was doing, you know to save
power and the planet and everything. I guess I'll just have to leave it
on.

Thanks anyway.

Enjoy replying to your own post from almost four months ago?