Just out of curiousity, when is your optimization scheduled?

general tab under tasks.

Curt

"Chris50259" <Chris50259@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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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