In media center, tasks, settings, general, automatic download options, there
is a manual download option.

This might work if you change it to manual.

Curt


"Chris50259" <Chris50259@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:57F3FDFB-B24A-4AF7-8DAE-AB87AEE90877@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Since I installed a TV card in my Vista Home Premium desktop, the computer
> wakes every night at 3.00am to download an updated program guide (using
> Media
> Center). I have investigated this problem and it is being caused by
> ehSched
> running. No amount of twiddling with optimizers, power settings or task
> schedules will fix it (it is not even listed as a hidden task). A small
> program posted here [url]http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/21568.aspx[/url]
> fixes
> the problem temporarily but then it seems that when mcupdate runs, it
> re-sets
> ehSched to 3.00am! Since the computer is located in the bedroom, it wakes
> me
> at 3.00am too!
>
> I understand that stopping mcupdate fixes the problem but that's a bit
> drastic since that seems to stop all media center updating!
>
> Whoever in Microsoft thought that waking a computer at 3.00am to carry out
> a
> task that could wait until it was next switched on was a great idea
> clearly
> has a limited grasp of real-world PC use!
>
> Come on you experts - there must be a way to fix this either by stopping
> ehSched from waking the PC (so that it runs only when the PC is running -
> I
> am currently having to shut down the PC every night and then ehSched runs
> at
> start-up) or resetting the time it runs permanently.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Chris
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