Thanks Curt - unfortunately the Event Viewer still shows a scheduled download
at 3.00am! What I really want to do is to keep the scheduled downloads but
either move them to a more convenient time, or, even better to keep them
where they are but stop the event waking the PC!

"Curt" wrote:
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> 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
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> > 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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