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    I have switched to Live Mesh from Live Sync because a number of my PC's tend to be in sleep mode for a large proportion of time and because of this sync becomes problematic. Live Mesh works great but for one really annoying thing. 

    My desktop PC's now hardly sleeps at all. Either no sleep happens or something wakes the PC from sleep! The PC's are all Windows 7 Home X64 and a re running the latest 0.9.4014.7. 

    As the PC is waking on without user intervention I considered it must be a Wake-on-LAN issue. I disabled PCI PME in my BIOS so as to ignore any WoL protocols and now the PC appears to behave normally. i.e. It sleeps correctly and doesn't wake unless I physically press power on.

    Looking at threads in this forum I've seen other people experiencing this issue but I also note that it appears Live Mesh doesn't support WoL. 
     
    I've checked the task scheduler and it's set up is fine. The "Performance Information and Tools->Advanced Options" report no issues stoping the PC from sleeping.

    This leads me to an issue. I'd like to leave WoL on in case I need a remote desktop BUT leaving it on causes my PC to stay awake for most of the day.

    Any solutions/comments gratefully received.

    Graham
    Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:15 PM

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    Sleep issues can be pretty problematic to deal with and Wake On Lan can also be funky. Depending on your network driver, you may be able to set it to only wake on "magic packet" which should allow the PC to sleep and stay asleep even when network traffic to probe the availability of machines tries to hit the NIC.
    Troubleshooting the reasons for a PC waking randomly can start with the POWERCFG command at a command prompt. Use POWRCFG /? to see how to use it to determine what is waking the PC and what devices are allowed to wake the PC. I've found the USB devices can be pretty troublesome.

    Basically, I set my PCs to sleep and disable Wake On Lan or set it for Magic Packet. If a PC is asleep, I don't worry about being able to use RD to access it. Even without Live Mesh, Sleep/Wake/RDP access is still hit or miss these days, in my opinion. If you're going to need RD access, don't let the PC sleep.

    -steve
    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
    Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:23 PM
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    Sleep issues can be pretty problematic to deal with and Wake On Lan can also be funky. Depending on your network driver, you may be able to set it to only wake on "magic packet" which should allow the PC to sleep and stay asleep even when network traffic to probe the availability of machines tries to hit the NIC.
    Troubleshooting the reasons for a PC waking randomly can start with the POWERCFG command at a command prompt. Use POWRCFG /? to see how to use it to determine what is waking the PC and what devices are allowed to wake the PC. I've found the USB devices can be pretty troublesome.

    Basically, I set my PCs to sleep and disable Wake On Lan or set it for Magic Packet. If a PC is asleep, I don't worry about being able to use RD to access it. Even without Live Mesh, Sleep/Wake/RDP access is still hit or miss these days, in my opinion. If you're going to need RD access, don't let the PC sleep.

    -steve
    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
    Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:23 PM
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    Thanks. You've just explained why RD and Live Mesh Remote Access are useless. You've also crystalized the idea that Microsoft can never really get anything right, no matter how long they work at it. Do you really think that people want to leave their computer fully on forever???

     

    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 12:51 PM