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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2007, 11:43 PM »
np, couldn't sleep anyway - long live insomnia ;)

EDIT: why do you use the loop thing to construct the idletime variable, instead of just doing DllCall("Kernel32.dll\GetSystemTimes", "*UInt64", idletime, "*Uint64", dummy1, "*Uint64", dummy2) and getting it directly?
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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2007, 12:03 AM »
Right it allows my computer to go to sleep (and hibernate after a couple of hours) - the proof of the pudding will be to see what happens when I load the CPU for a long period - I'll try that tomorrow.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2007, 12:33 AM »
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why do you use the loop thing

I missed that information in the excitement, f0dder! So you've been reading the AHK manual, have you?

The code isn't mine, I pretty much borrow everyone else's work.

I've posted your findings on the AHK forum. Maybe you should post your final GetCpuLoad code there?

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2007, 12:45 AM »
:tellme: f0dder, was the SetAffinity required?

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2007, 12:52 AM »
I'm not sure the SetAffinity() is required - can't remember if GetTickCount() is affected by the TSC weirdness. Heading off to bed, so don't have time for testing either right now :) - don't think it's necessary in this case, though.
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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2007, 03:11 PM »
Quote from: Carol Haynes on January 19, 2007, 12:03 AM
Right it allows my computer to go to sleep (and hibernate after a couple of hours) - the proof of the pudding will be to see what happens when I load the CPU for a long period - I'll try that tomorrow.

Hmmm ... the pudding just burst.

To keep my system busy I ran a stress tester (the nVidia stress test which stresses most system components in a continuous loop) for 2 hours but LowToSleep didn't manage to keep the computer awake ? CPU usage was continuously high throughout.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2007, 08:01 PM »
:tellme: My problem was the oposite... How does LowToSleep v1.5 work?

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2007, 12:15 AM »
I haven't left it long enough to see if it hibernates but it still turns off the screen and hard discs (set up in Power Options Applet), which it shouldn't do, so I suspect it will still hibernate at the appropriate time.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #33 on: January 20, 2007, 07:14 AM »
:tellme: Hmmm... On my FSC Amilo laptop it behaves like it should. Could there be different power save implementations depending on brand?

Try lowering the idleduration=30 or =1 to test it, and see if that makes a difference.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #34 on: January 20, 2007, 11:59 AM »
Nope - changed it to 1 and it made no difference.

Here is my Power Options applet:

po.jpg

The battery options are because I have a USB UPS which WinXP recognises as a battery.
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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #35 on: January 20, 2007, 02:12 PM »
Seems like something else is going on.  Have you tried moving your mouse at the right time?
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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #36 on: January 20, 2007, 03:59 PM »
I think that is pretty much what the script does (see the MAKENOISE subroutine) except that I think it is done by keyboard activity rather than mouse.

Trouble is it doesn't seem to work for me.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #37 on: January 20, 2007, 04:26 PM »
I'm still waiting to see if mine will give up.
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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #38 on: January 21, 2007, 02:18 AM »
:tellme: I've added mouse noise to LowToSleep v1.6.

Please delete your existing ini file before running.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #39 on: January 21, 2007, 05:08 AM »
Works on my end.  Maybe you shoud try it again.  Are you running XP in an emulator, say on a Mac?
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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #40 on: January 21, 2007, 11:36 AM »
Thanks I'll give it a go.

No I am just running 32 bit Windows XP Pro natively.

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Re: IDEA: Replacement Power Options applet
« Reply #41 on: December 16, 2010, 02:18 PM »
Hi,

I just want to report that LowtoSleep, which I use all the time, is being detected as malware by yesterday's Avast 5 signatures.  I was able to exclude it from detections, and informed Avast, but they didn't acknowledge what I sent them.

Hope this get resolved soon.
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