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hello

I Have true image 2009, i make a system clean up but it stops after 30 mn when the computer run in stand by mode ?

is it normal ? comment remédier à cela ?

excuse my english

Best regards and thanks a lot

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Yeah... Unfortunately ATI is not very good at managing this sleep thing. You can find utilities to keep a computer awake for a while. Then you could add this utility as a pre/post command or write a simple command line script to start the utility, run the ATI task and shut it down.

hello

i just see your post, thanks a lot but il don't know how to create a pre/post command or write a simple command line script to start the utility, no matter.

best regards and thanks a lot

Just make a Pre-command pointing to a file called ATIDontSleep.cmd files (just use Notepad then change .txt to .cmd) that contains this line:

powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0

or if you use hibernate as I do:

powercfg -change -hibernate-timeout-ac 0

Then create and insert to your Post-command a file like this one I called ATIRestoreSleep.cmd:

powercfg -change -hibernate-timeout-ac 30

I might've thought you could enter simple one-line commands into Pre- and Post- but that seems not to work.

I might've thought you could enter simple one-line commands into Pre- and Post- but that seems not to work.

How about pointing Pre/Post command to shortcuts targeted to:

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -hibernate off

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -hibernate on

hello

thanks a lot for your replies, il will try.

best regards and thanks for your competence

Rajan wrote:

How about pointing Pre/Post command to shortcuts targeted to:

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -hibernate off

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -hibernate on

If this works for you (I get "User command's execution failed.") please tell how you've done it & your OS. Mine is W7HPx64. I'm also an Admin and have UAC turned-off.

hello i try but if fails too, i have windows 7 x86, no matter i don't make a clean up often.

best regards.

tomf wrote:
Rajan wrote:

How about pointing Pre/Post command to shortcuts targeted to:

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -hibernate off

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -hibernate on

If this works for you (I get "User command's execution failed.") please tell how you've done it & your OS. Mine is W7HPx64. I'm also an Admin and have UAC turned-off.

Actually we dont need either a cmd file or a shortcut (it failed for me too). It can be specified in the arguments field in Acronis. (See in screenshots attached)

However, this may still not solve the op's problem because the she is running a system clean task and I dont see any pre/post command for it (in 2012 version). It may be possible by configuring in Windows task scheduler but I have never tried it.

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Rajan wrote:

... this may still not solve the op's problem because the she is running a system clean task and I dont see any pre/post command for it (in 2012 version). It may be possible by configuring in Windows task scheduler but I have never tried it.

Of course you're right Rajan, I missed that. Sorry for the distraction--no excuse for me today...!

I expect you're right also about using "arguments" and I will use that much simpler method, thanks!

EDIT: And you are right of course, using simply "powercfg" as the Command and "-change -hibernate-timeout-ac X" as Arguments works perfectly! Thank you!

yw tom :)

I created a .bat file like this to run the Acronis cleanup tool but it throws up a cleanup confirmation after the task is completed (see screenshot attached). There is no option in Acronis to disable it...and I am unable to figure out how to close it.

@echo off
c:\windows/system32/powercfg.exe -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageTools.exe" /system_cleanup
c:\windows/system32/powercfg.exe -change -standby-timeout-ac 30
cls

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Well the OP's not been back but this is interesting Rajan--I didn't know (or didn't think about) whether TI had any CLI capabilities. Good stuff.

tomf wrote:
using simply "powercfg" as the Command and "-change -hibernate-timeout-ac X" as Arguments works perfectly! Thank you!

Well, it turns-out the Post-command only works in Test mode and not with a real backup. The log *says* it was executed without error but my power setting does not change again after the backup is completed.

Seems to me I read this here somewhere (that the 2nd, or Post- command doesn't work) but dunno if there's a fix...