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Old 10-12-2008   #1 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32 bit
 
 

Vista loses local connectivity after inactivity

I have a laptop running Vista Home Premium 32 bit. It's fairly new (~1 month) and has pretty much had this issue since day 1. If you leave the laptop idle for a "fairly long" period of time, it will lose connectivity to other machines on the local network. It will do it frequently overnight, but not always, so it's hard to pinpoint when/how long.

Here are the symptoms:
-Mapped drives still show up in explorer, but if you click on one, it hangs FOREVER. I have let it try to connect for several hours and it never gets through

-Using UNC gives the same result

-I can still ping other machines on my local network

-I can still access the internet

-Disabling/enabling the network connection does not help

-Once the issue starts, Windows explorer can not be shut down. You can task-manager-> end process all day and it will not die.

-Once the issue starts, Windows can not be shut down. It will hang on the "logging off" screen for literally hours. The only way to recover from this is to do a hard power down by holding the power button for 10 seconds or so.

Any ideas?


Last edited by ericgeil; 10-12-2008 at 09:43 AM.. Reason: it cut off half of my post!
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Old 10-12-2008   #2 (permalink)


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Re: Vista loses local connectivity after inactivity

BTW - I thought it might be due to Windows going into hybernate/sleep, so i disabled these power options (both after inactivity and when the lid shuts), but this did not resolve the issue.
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Old 10-14-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32 bit
 
 

Re: Vista loses local connectivity after inactivity

more info on this....
once the error occurs, I can actually go through Windows Explorer and connect to another machine using \\ipadress\share but not \\machinename\share even though I can go to a command prompt and ping the machinename and get the ip address and ping -a the ip address and get the machine name. It seems to be happening pretty much every day now.

Getting closer to "upgrading" to XP....
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Old 10-16-2008   #4 (permalink)


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Re: Vista loses local connectivity after inactivity

I believe this has been resolved...Only time will tell, but here's what i tried:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q297684

It's been about 24 hours with no issue...keeping my fingers crossed...
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Old 10-16-2008   #5 (permalink)


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Re: Vista loses local connectivity after inactivity

Good luck
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