All apps closing down overnight when pc is in sleep.

Hi

I work on my pc until late at night so have several programs open plus firefox with numerous tabs. I go to bed, the pc goes to sleep, but when i come down in the morning all my programs have closed. All I see is my desktop. No error messages (as pps have mentioned). The pc come out of sleep but its like its restarted itself at some point in the night.

Its rather annoying as I will have all the programs set up ready to start work again in the morning and wont have bookmarked all the browser tabs but everything has disappeared.

It doesnt happen every night.

Thanks.

Thanks doubled822

Ive done that. It was slightly different for me as im on a desktop and im guessing you are laptop. I now have 'Hibernate After = Never'.

Whats the diff between sleep, hybrid and hibernate? Is it just energy consumption related? Will it make much of a consumption difference if my pc never hibernates? I never turn my pc off.

Cheers.

No i dont need to login/reload, its literally as if its coming out of screen sleep, it just wakes up and shows me the desktop but all the apps have closed.

I'll let you know how it goes :)

tan8856 said:

.......No error messages (as pps have mentioned). The pc come out of sleep but its like its restarted itself at some point in the night......

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

Are you saying that there were no error messages on the screen or are you saying that you have looked thru the Windows event logs for errors? Those event logs would also tell you if the computer restarted, but if you have a password set and automatic log on disabled, then you would know if it restarted.

Edit: btw, you are not the first person to report this issue. I cannot locate the thread right now...

"It doesnt happen every night."

Does the frequency coincide with Windows Update or other Updates that require a reboot?

Hi & thanks for your replies.

UsernameIssues - there were no error messages on the screen. How do i view the event logs? They would be interesting...

gigagiggles - it seems to a couple of times a week so dont think its related to updates.

Id just assumed it was my kids messing around on the pc but i now know it isnt

UsernameIssue - Ive got to the event logs and there are a number of warning 28, error 251, info 1553 and audit 360. Is this normal? Which are relevant to me? Thanks.

I'm glad that you found your way to the event logs - I was on my way out, so that post was short. I probably should have spent more time asking questions rather than suggesting actions this early in the game.

One possibility is that the computer is restarting and then going to sleep - you come in and all you see is a computer that needs waking up. You also mentioned that you do not have to log in when you wake it up. And the desktop did not reload or rebuild like you would see during a reboot - the computer was just asleep. So, what I should have asked you, "Do you have a password on the account?" and "Is there only one user account on this computer?"

One user account with no password = auto "log on" after booting

If that is the case, then it is quite possible that...
...some software is causing a restart during the idle night time
...the system logs itself on after the restart
...the system eventually goes to sleep
...you find it asleep the next morning - with the applications closed

I finally thought of a useful search term - so I located the forum threads that I was looking for. They are slightly different, but the apps closed each night due to the system logging the user off.

Get loged out over night
and
Overnight Logging Off

You can see my tiny attempt at helping in that first thread. I suggested opening notepad, entering in some text - but not saving it. That should prevent the system from logging you off and thus prevent the computer from restarting. However, the software can force a restart. That would cause the restart even if an app was opened with unsaved data. I've not encountered too many apps that use the force switch, it is kind of rude :-(

So - you can try the same thing - leave notepad open with unsaved text. Then see if you find the computer looking like this some morning:



Back to the Windows Event logs. The main two of interest are the Application events and the System events. If/when you find all of your apps closed, work back thru the System event log entries looking for a large block of event ID 7036. Those indicate that services are being stopped and I find that grouping easy to scan for.


You can also look thru the Application event log to see if there is an entry like the one mentioned in the second thread that I linked to above - an entry that tells you which application is restarting the computer each night.


As far as the event entries that you found and asked about:
You can select the entry of interest and read a bit more info in the box below the list. A search of the internet for warning 28 leads me to think that it is related to your network adapter. Probably nothing serious. You can research the other entries or copy/paste the info from the box below the list for each entry of interest - then maybe someone can comment on them.