Windows xp help file error?: Power schemes notice

Sorry about that! Yes, it's a Dell, and in my searching I inadvertently must
have opened the Dell user and system guides in my help and support window; I
guess there's always been a little confusion about how the two are integrated
here.
At any rate, the Notice can be found by following this link on a Dell
Dimension 2300 Help and Support window: Pick a help topic\User & System
Guides\User's Guide\Tell Me How\Power Management\Power Schemes Tab|Notice.
There you may finally find the misbegotten file:
"NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the
monitor, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press any key
on the keyboard or click the mouse. To avoid this problem, always set the
monitor to time-out after the hard drive.|"
At any rate, that wasn't my problem, and after much reading in the windows
newsgroups I removed a lot of system restore points and temp files and
created enough space to defrag my computer, which had run out of space on the
hard disk and was in dire need of some maintenance so it would stop freezing
up.
Thanks for monitoring these newsgroups and helping us all out!!!!

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End user


"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

> I could not find that in Help and Support.
>
> Dell?
>
> I did find it here...
>
> "NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the
> monitor does, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press
> any key on the keyboard or click the mouse. To avoid this problem, always
> set the monitor to time-out before the hard drive."
> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps200/om/TD649A03.pdf
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:189E588D-7739-4964-9E25-044C06025DCE@microsoft.com,
> End user <Enduser.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> > If I understand the intent of this file correctly, it is misworded and
> > should indicate that the monitor be disabled before the hard drive. Is
> > this correct? See help & support\power management\power schemes\Notice as
> > follows:
> > NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the
> > monitor, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press any
> > key on the keyboard or click the mouse. To avoid this problem, always set
> > the monitor to time-out after the hard drive.
> > It should be set to time out BEFORE the hard drive, No?
> > --
> > End user
>
>
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Dell, Gateway and other computer manufacturers somehow combine their help in
Windows XP Help and Support. I have no idea how they do that.

Glad you got your machine cleaned up.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:351C5C2C-726E-4AEF-AF3A-7B55813899AC@microsoft.com,
End user <Enduser DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Sorry about that! Yes, it's a Dell, and in my searching I inadvertently
> must have opened the Dell user and system guides in my help and support
> window; I guess there's always been a little confusion about how the two
> are integrated here.
> At any rate, the Notice can be found by following this link on a Dell
> Dimension 2300 Help and Support window: Pick a help topic\User & System
> Guides\User's Guide\Tell Me How\Power Management\Power Schemes Tab|Notice.
> There you may finally find the misbegotten file:
> "NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the
> monitor, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press any
> key on the keyboard or click the mouse. To avoid this problem, always set
> the monitor to time-out after the hard drive.|"
> At any rate, that wasn't my problem, and after much reading in the windows
> newsgroups I removed a lot of system restore points and temp files and
> created enough space to defrag my computer, which had run out of space on
> the hard disk and was in dire need of some maintenance so it would stop
> freezing up.
> Thanks for monitoring these newsgroups and helping us all out!!!!
>
> --
> End user
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" wrote:
>
>> I could not find that in Help and Support.
>>
>> Dell?
>>
>> I did find it here...
>>
>> "NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the
>> monitor does, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press
>> any key on the keyboard or click the mouse. To avoid this problem, always
>> set the monitor to time-out before the hard drive."
>> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps200/om/TD649A03.pdf
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:189E588D-7739-4964-9E25-044C06025DCE@microsoft.com,
>> End user <Enduser DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
>>> If I understand the intent of this file correctly, it is misworded and
>>> should indicate that the monitor be disabled before the hard drive. Is
>>> this correct? See help & support\power management\power schemes\Notice
>>> as follows:
>>> NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the
>>> monitor, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press any
>>> key on the keyboard or click the mouse. To avoid this problem, always
>>> set the monitor to time-out after the hard drive.
>>> It should be set to time out BEFORE the hard drive, No?
>>> --
>>> End user
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