I've never played around with power profiles yet. I'd say 99% of the time I'm plugged in, probably only on battery if I'm messing around doing personal stuff. Never ever leave the thing on overnight...
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Bruce A. Chitiea <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:21 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 9.5 times out on Win 8, not networked Karen: I recommend taking advantage of the ability to create “power profiles” say, one for your normal daytime work when plugged into power, one when running strictly off of battery, and one when you might leave it powered up overnight without interruption to perform full-disk backups or anti-virus scans. Hope that helps. Bruce From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TOM HART Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 6:42 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 9.5 times out on Win 8, not networked Those power settings always get me when I put a new computer into service. The most annoying one is 'What to do with power button", the default is 'Shut down'. If an employee hits that button by mistake(it has happened) in the middle of a transaction-bingo. Limiting the time when on battery will save it from draining the battery and shutting down Tom Hart From: Karen Tellef <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:32 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 9.5 times out on Win 8, not networked Aha!!! Power settings! This goes in my Windows 8 notes... I went into power settings / change plan settings / change advanced power settings. In the list of devices, I chose "hard disk" and there's an option for "turn off hard disk after". An option for both battery and hard drive; battery was set to 10 minutes, plugged in to 20 minutes. I changed then both to "never". We'll see if that helps. Do you see a reason why I should keep a time limit on battery? Thanks again! Karen -----Original Message----- From: Javier Valencia <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 11:31 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: 9.5 times out on Win 8, not networked Karen, I get the same message all the time using R:Base 9.5-64 and Windows 7. Normally if I wait a few seconds after I wiggle the mouse or press the shift key, the application snaps right back. You might want to check the power settings and make sure that the hard disk is not set up to stop after a few minutes idling. My laptop is setup to ignore all power saving features when plugged in but I still get the message; I just have not taken the time to research the issue further since it has been (so far) only a minor annoyance. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 5:56 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - 9.5 times out on Win 8, not networked If I am idle for a period of time in 9.5, I end up with the windows "this program has failed to respond" or whatever the heck that message is, and I have to "close the program". I have a lone laptop, no network here. This has been messing me up when I'm working with temp tables, etc. I'm assuming this is a windows 8 setting that I'm missing? (No rbase timeout command is present) Karen
