When does Windows go into Standby mode?

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If I want to start a video-editing process that will take several

hours to complete, should I disable the standby in Windows? Or will

Windows not go into standby in that situation?

 

[Jose]

On Mar 31, 2:51 am, "void.no.spam....@gmail.com"

wrote:

> If I want to start a video-editing process that will take several

> hours to complete, should I disable the standby in Windows?  Or will

> Windows not go into standby in that situation?



For power options and maintaining data integrity:



Stand By is the riskiest of all choices.



Hibernate is less risky.



Properly shutting down your system is the safest but not always the

most attractive or convenient.



If you want to do something that takes a long time and would like your

system to somehow switch off when the process is done, be sure to

think about what you are going to do if whatever you are working on is

totally lost when the event occurs (especially Stand By) and adjust

your methods and expectations accordingly so it will not be a complete

shock when it happens. That way, you will be less distraught when

something bad happens later, because you have already thought about

the possibility beforehand.



You may not have a problem at all if the stars are all in alignment

and your things are all finished, but it might happen and it depends

on what you are doing. It only takes one incident to help adjust the

thinking process to realize Stand By may not be the wisest choice for

some things. Stand By was not invented to shut your computer off

after video editing but you can try to use it for that and it might

work just fine. What does your video editing software have to say

about it?



XP will start the timer for a chosen power saving option when the

system enters an idle state, but what is XPs definition of idle? If

your editing is done and not using much CPU, the power saving

countdown begins.



According to MS, the idle timer starts when no process is using more

than 10% of the CPU for the chosen option to be invoked - 20 minutes,

30 minutes, etc.



Any action or process that that causes a mere blip of 10% CPU usage

resets the timer back to zero. Depending on what you are doing and

have running your system may never enter the chosen power saving mode,

but there is always a good explanation for it.

 

[Twayne]

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void.no.spam.com@gmail.com typed:

> If I want to start a video-editing process that will take

> several hours to complete, should I disable the standby in

> Windows? Or will Windows not go into standby in that

> situation?



If you mean you're set to go to Standby after a programmed

amount of time, yes, you should disable that. Just having

Standby enabled but ONLY caused manually and on purpose, it

doesn't really matter.

I've never noticed problems with standby during editing,

but I did find that standby, or coming out of it, would cause

some glitched frames during a long render. Turned auto-standby

off and the glitched frames disappeared. I suspect it was a

fight for the cpu between the rendering and needs of comign

out of standby.

OTOH, I have a buddy who leaves it on; the screen blanks

but the video process continues right along just fine with no

problems. So I guess you'd have to call it a "ymmv". He has a

GAteway and I have a Dell.



HTH,



Twayne`