What conditions must exist before that Vista will be puy a computer on standby?

What conditions must exist before Vista will put the computer to sleep?

I'm having a horrible time to getting my computers to turn out to fall asleep on their own.

Wake-on-Lan is disabled.  Power options are:

Disable hard drive: never
Sleep after 10 minutes
Selective suspension of USB enabled or disabled - makes a difference in my tests
Link state power management off
Processor power management: 10% to 100%
Savings power search and indexing method: energy saving
Turn off the display after 1 minute
Allow the computer to sleep when shaing media

The computer will sleep or Hibernate when I select from the start menu or set up and push the power button to do.  If the hardware is capable.

My basic question is this: what are the conditions specifically must exist in order for the computer think it should go to sleep.  There are a number of processes that are still running of course.  There is no way cannot have a time computer the CPU consumption SystemIdleProcess, but is there some criteria that tells the operating system that the computer is idle most of the time?  I use the powercfg.exe tool to determine that ONLY the mouse and keyboard are armed for wake up the system.

This computer has 4 user accounts, it's a desktop machine, some accounts may be recorded throughout the night and I still want the computer standby or hibernation even if these accounts are registered on.

What you can do to understand what is happening?

Leif

Thank you for using Microsoft Vista answers Forum!

I suggest that you change the power supply for the multimedia settings options.

·         Go to the Start button, Control Panel, click Power Options.

·         Choose a power plan different from that you have chosen. If you have high performance, then choose balanced.

·         Then click on Change Plan settings. If you get the Windows needs your permission to continue, click on continue. Choose the time you want to put the computer to sleep.

·         Then click on change advanced power settings. Under Advanced settings, scroll down to Multimedia settings.

·         Expand when sharing media, choose "allow the computer to sleep.

·         If this option is grayed out, go to the top of the screen and click on change settings that are currently unavailable.

·         This will allow you to choose other options. Click ok to close the dialog boxes.

If please reply and let us know if your problem is resolved or if you need more help.

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