Inexplicable (to me, at least) sleep problem

gregrocker said:

Do you have Win7 defrag set for weekly run as is often default in Scheduled Tasks?

No, and I cannot: If I try to run it, I get a pop-up that defragmentation has been set with custom settings by another program, and that if I want to use the Windows module, I have to first remove the existing custom settings. As I don't want to remove PerfectDisk, I've not removed those existing settings.

I do have the Windows module set to run monthly on my wife's computer: While she does use it, it is mainly for email, posting grades via the Internet, writing quizzes that are not saved, researching for the classes she teaches (and not often saving those documents, just printing what she needs,) etc., so that she has only used a very small part of the hard disk. When I got my current computer, I transferred most programs and files, including PD, to it, then removed much of what was on the old machine before giving it to her. When that one needed replacing, I did not bother to transfer version 5.x of PD to her new computer, as I realized that I did not need to update it for her; I just set Windows defrag to run monthly.

I think I'll spend this afternoon defragmenting the world....

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Incidentally, an email from Raxco stated that the drive settings which I disabled are the defaults, reinforcing my belief that I had not changed any of them. Of course, I still have no clue as to why the program worked for about four months and then failed: If the drive settings had not changed until I disabled them, they why did they not cause the sleep problem until a mnnth or ago?

Not Myself said:

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Incidentally, an email from Raxco stated that the drive settings which I disabled are the defaults, reinforcing my belief that I had not changed any of them. Of course, I still have no clue as to why the program worked for about four months and then failed: If the drive settings had not changed until I disabled them, they why did they not cause the sleep problem until a mnnth or ago?

The only thing I could think of would be Windows Updates (WU), aka, "Patch Tuesday".

It was about four months ago (April) that I had updated my operating system (OS). Windows and my machine did not like April's updates. The OS slowed down and the updates messed up my hybrid sleep settings, sound familiar? And, certain programs were slow to open, I did not have any OS crash issues, but some programs became cranky to a point were I had to close and then reopen them to get them back to some semblance of operability.

I attributed the performance issue to security and program updates to the OS. The only thing that helped was continuing the WU through the next three months hoping that Microsoft would eventually get things straightened out. The biggest advance in performance was downloading and running: An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 KB2775511 late last month, it cured the hybrid sleep problem I was having.

I used to update my machine when the updates arrived, but since April I've gotten into the habit of waiting a week or two and checking the News, Security News, and Windows Updates and Activation Forums here just to see if anyone else has had problems with the updates.

Here's an interesting one. I didn't have the Russian ruble character update (KB2970228), but I still had problems with I believe these two: KB2980245, and KB2952664, they were the only two left to do out of twelve and it took over a half hour for Windows to finally “configure” the system and finish rebooting. I must say though that since the enterprise hotfixes, and August's updates my machine is the quickest I've experienced in a long time.

Not Myself said:

I think I'll spend this afternoon defragmenting the world....

Do you take a nap while doing this?