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rolster - 29 Dec 2007 12:10 GMT

I would like my computer to shut itself down after a predecribed amount of
time while I am listening to music using Windows Media Player 11 as I imagine
other people would too, but it just doesn't happen. I have set my computer to
sleep after a certain amount of time in the Power Management options in
Windows Vista Control Panel and have ticked the option to allow the computer
to sleep when sharing media, but it just won't shut down. Is there something
I am missing or isn't the sleep function meant to work while Windows Media
Player is active. If someone has a solution to this problem or knows of some
other way I can play my music, so that my computer will shut down after a set
period of time I would be most grateful because I would like to fall to sleep
while listening to my music and not have my computer running the whole night.

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Swifty - 29 Dec 2007 15:42 GMT

> Is there something I am missing or isn't the sleep function meant to
> work while Windows Media Player is active.

Do you have the option "Allow screen saver during playback" checked?

My system won't even go into "display off" mode whilst WMP11 is active,
even if it is paused or not playing anything. I created a scheduled task
to kill it off just after my normal bedtime, so my system goes into low
power mode overnight.

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rolster - 30 Dec 2007 00:01 GMT

Thanks for your answer. I did have the "Allow screen saver during playback"
enabled and my screen saver did activate when Windows Media Player was
running. I don't know how to schedule a program to shutdown while active as
from what I can see, Window Vista's Task Scheduler only allows you to start
applications, not shut them down. I do see how being able to schedule a time
for Windows Media Player to terminate would then allow my computer to
shutdown via Vista's power management function. I have however found a
program that takes over the function of Vista's power management and allows
you to set a time for the computer to shutdown. It is Ali Keshavarz's, Auto
Shutdown and it works great in Vista, but I do wish Vista was able to perform
this task while I'm running Windows Media Player instead of having to resort
to a third party.

> > Is there something I am missing or isn't the sleep function meant to
> > work while Windows Media Player is active.
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> to kill it off just after my normal bedtime, so my system goes into low
> power mode overnight.

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Swifty - 30 Dec 2007 08:00 GMT

> I don't know how to schedule a program to shutdown while active as
> from what I can see, Window Vista's Task Scheduler only allows you to start
> applications, not shut them down.

I have a "pv.exe" (which I must have downloaded from somewhere as it's
not in a typical Windows location). PV allows you to kill other tasks.
This is on WindowsXP, by the way, but I'm confident that the same trick
could be made to work in Vista.

PV doesn't "shutdown" tasks, it kills them, so if they had data to save,
it won't get saved. I'm not aware of any data loss doing this to Windows
Media Player, but it would probably only be data on things that had
changed recently; perhaps the last played time of a track.

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zachd [MSFT] - 31 Dec 2007 10:13 GMT

This should be one of your drivers refusing to hibernate. I hibernate my
system all the time.

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>> Is there something I am missing or isn't the sleep function meant to
>> work while Windows Media Player is active.
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> to kill it off just after my normal bedtime, so my system goes into low
> power mode overnight.

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