Satellite Laptops :: A-Series models

[Yaz]

My Satellite A505-S6972 turns itself on every morning at 3:00 AM if it has a power source, i.e. the battery is installed or it is connected to ground power.  Makes no difference if WiFi is On or Off.  Stays on for a minute or so and then shuts down.

Using Vista Home Premium and IE7.

How can I determine what it is doing?

Thanks for your help.

Yaz

[Jerry_Lippey]

Satellite A505-S6972 

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turns itself on every morning at 3:00 AM  

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Yaz, open Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc) and look through the tasks for one that's scheduled for 3 am every day. My defrag, for instance, is scheduled to run at 3 am every Wednesday.

On the Conditions tab, you'll find Wake the computer to run this task.

[Yaz]

Jerry:

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I will check it when I get home and let the group know what I find.

Yaz

[Jerry_Lippey]

Good luck!

[Yaz]

Jerry:

Something called "Consolidator" runs at 3:00 AM and also again about 12 hours later.  Looks harmless enough, but I still don't really knows what it does.

Thanks for your help.

Yaz

[Yaz]

Followup to my most recent post:

I did a search at Microsoft and it came up with the answer, sort of.  If you're interested in reading the results of the search, here's the link:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?mode=a&qid=3017649&query=consolidator+scheduled+tas...

Once again, thanks for your help.

Yaz

[Jerry_Lippey]

Thanks, Yaz!

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Consolidator

This scheduled task runs the Wsqmcons.exe program when you install Windows Vista. This scheduled task also runs the Wsqmcons.exe program daily if the user consented to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. This program collects and sends usage data to Microsoft. The Wsqmcons.exe program is located in the System32 folder.

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