Recent content by Peter B

Hi Brian I was made aware of the 'defrag effect' on differentials and incrementals here, some time ago, so it's set to 'off'. I usually do one manually on the first Sunday of each month, before I do a backup, but thanks for your reply.

Hi Ghot I had looked at the Macrium Forum earlier and the nearest I found was this CBT: MFT Volume reset versus image reset but didn't seem to explain anything, at least to me. (I haven't needed to do a restore - I always do a full backup on Sundays, then differentials Monday through...

Well, that's pretty much all I have...it only appears on the summation page after I've done a differential backup...

I'm just curious as to what causes a Volume and Image Reset in Reflect. I can't recall anything significant happening on the 2 dates shown on the attached screenshot...everything is working fine, just wondered if someone could explain it in simple terms, please.

Hi again Denis and thank you for your perseverance. For the moment, I've disabled driver updates in Group Policy and I'll suck it and see how I get on. (I don't like not liking things :rolleyes: ) Regards

Hi Denis Whether WU should or should not be able to do that, it absolutely did - I've been OCD about checking the S3 status and immediately before the update, it was fine. I then rechecked immediately afterwards and it was disabled by a graphics conflict and the same error was showing in Disk...

Another footnote, just for information...after this morning's update to 1702, Windows installed an older Graphics Driver and S3 was again disabled by a Graphics conflict. I went round the buoy again and reinstalled the latest one from Intel's site and all's well again. Annoying, but at least I...

Hi yet again Denis The Cumulative Update to 22621.1635 and the .NET Framework updates were installed yesterday morning, but 2 other Task Scheduler items ran okay a short time afterwards. I can't think of anything else unusual that I've done - I don't really do a whole host of things during a...

And the beat goes on...last night, Task Scheduler didn't shutdown my Laptop - I checked this morning and once again, S3 was disabled by a graphics problem. But this time, in Device Manager, I wasn't able to find an alternative driver on my machine to fix it. So I downloaded the Intel Driver...

If it's of any help, I use Zen Internet in Rochdale to host my .com domain - it's currently £8.39/month, plus £19.19 annually for the domain registration, not exactly in your range of 'cheap', I suspect, but it does everything I require and their support is excellent. I predominantly use them...

Updated...because there was a comment saying that S3 was blocked by 'graphics', I accessed Device Manager and searched for an updated Intel Iris driver on my machine, not 'everywhere' - and it found and installed one 2 months newer than the one in use...unsure why it occurred, but S3 is now...

Hi again Denis I just read your last post - everything is working fine at present, Sleep, awakening from Sleep, Scheduled Tasks running on time - but being inquisitive, I just ran the powercfg -a command and I don't know what to make of the results now. There's a Screenshot attached.

An update - I think I've cracked it - I started over and went through all the settings with great care and all seems to be well now, even after a few re-starts this morning. Possibly, the clincher was disabling the USB Selective Suspend setting, but not entirely sure about that. The only other...

Thanks for your patience and fabulous advice, Denis - I'll have to wait until the weekend to thoroughly wade through everything again and take some action. At the moment, I've abandoned Sleep entirely and reset everything to 'always on' And I'm sorry, too, that your jealousy at my 'S3 State'...

Thank you again, Denis, for your continued input - because I didn't make notes yesterday of the times the sleep problems occurred and, given the huge amounts of data the expanded event viewer provides, I thought I'd start over today and manually log my activity, just to try and pin specific...