Vista - Vista MCE (ehSched) wakes PC at 3.00am

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 http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/21568.aspx 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

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@xxxxxx> 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:

Just out of curiousity, when is your optimization scheduled?

general tab under tasks.

Curt

"Chris50259" <Chris50259@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also, try taskschd.msc. In the task scheduler library, there is a check box
under conditions for waking the PC. You may have already tried that as well,
I don't know.

the problem is that it may affect your recording schedule if you have the
tv card set to record shows. Under the proerties tag, on the
right hand side of the page, you can reset the time, but if the mcupdate
is changing the time back to 3 am, then this may or may not work.

If under settings, you disable wake, you can still have it download the
guide
from the settings page.

Again, it may or may not work. If mcupdate is the culprit, you can open
an issue with Microsoft.

Curt


"Chris50259" <Chris50259@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Curt: 11.00am

"Curt" wrote:

Hi Curt,

The only related task I can find in taskschd.msc is mcupdate (not ehSched)
and the box to wake the PC is not checked. This is with "show hidden tasks"
checked. Do you think I should be able to find ehSched - if I could it might
solve my problem!

I don't use the recording scheduler.

I tried to raise an issue with Microsoft but they wanted £46 + VAT for the
privilege of sorting out my problem!

Regards

Chris

"Curt" wrote:

In taskschd.msc, try clicking on task scheduler library, microsoft, then
click
on windows, then media center.

If that doesn't work, then from the main page, double click at the bottom
pane on one of the running tasks there. That may populate the list.

Curt



"Chris50259" <Chris50259@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Curt,
Already tried that - no joy unfortunately. Get mcupdate (plus a couple of
others) but no ehSched.
:-(

"Curt" wrote:

Ok, is there a task that shows your tv card, or something that
has tv in it, or maybe guide? I don't see it in my computer, so it
may be attached to the tv card program.

Curt

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