Windowblinds Prevents Computer from Entering Hibernation

Laptop won't hibernate with WB Loaded

Monday, October 23, 2006 by hotrod11 | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I think my title says it all.  When I have WB loaded with any skin, it prevents Hibernation.  I will suspend, but not hibernate.

Here's my WB info:
WindowBlinds 5.1 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400

Wblind.dll         2006/10/09 10:24:20
Wblind64.dll         2006/10/09 11:51:37
Wbsrv.dll         2006/10/09 10:40:18
Wbconfig.exe         2006/10/10 16:39:13
Wbload.exe         2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll         2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll         2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll         2006/04/13 17:29:23


Some other posts elsewhere recommended Hijackthis and look at line 020.  Here's that result.

O20 - Winlogon Notify: MCPClient - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Stardock\mcpstub.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: WBSrv - C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\wbsrv.dll

This is really frustrating.  This is my new Dell XPS laptop and I really want it looking cool and hibernating between jobs.

Please Help ME.
11 Reply 7 Referrals
Neil Banfield
Reply #1 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:49 AM

I just tried hibernate here with WB 5.1 and it worked perfectly.

What happens when you try to hibernate?


hotrod11
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:36 AM
It will turn off the lcd and look like it's preparing for hibernation, but instead of popping up with the WinXP Hibernating.......... black screen the computer restarts, regains wifi connection, and turns the LCD back on.

Neil Banfield
Reply #3 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:03 AM

I have found one PC which shows the black hibernating screen but then having finished it turns itself back on, but this happens with or without WindowBlinds.  So thats clearly a bug in a driver, bios, or Windows itself.

What other applications do you have running at the time?  The only explanation for why it seems to happen with WB running for you & not with it not running would be an application conflict and I cannot see why that would not also cause suspend to fail.

If you only have WindowBlinds installed and not DesktopX, ObjectBar or ObjectDock, then you can remove the MCPClient entry (it can be disabled via SDC)


yrag
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:51 PM
System/ Hardware/ Device Manager/ Network Adapters: Check 'Turn off' card and un-check 'Allow Device' in Power Management

BX
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:31 PM
Yrag is fast

hotrod11
Reply #6 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:02 PM
yrag. Thanks for the tip, but they were already set up that way.

Neil, I'm also using Object Dock Plus.

How can I figure out if there is a software conflict?

yrag
Reply #7 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:29 PM
You have a docklet running in OD+? Being it's new, if this never hibernated the bios settings are probably set wrong.

hotrod11
Reply #8 Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:17 AM
It's weird. It is new. And it hibernated the first few days, then I proceded to intall all my stuff. Now, I've unistalled WB, shut down OD+, shut down Yahoo widgets, Dell's Nicconfig Power utility, and various other apps from starting, now it will hibernate one time after booting, but it will fail on the second attempt...It will act like before and the hibernation option is then greyed out, and I must shutdown, standby or restart. Weird.

yrag
Reply #9 Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:44 PM
If you have a screen saver running, turn it off. Boot into bios and enable S1 Power Management. Disable all wake up events except keyboard. Boot back into Windows and bring up the 'Turn Off Computer' dialog. Hold the 'shift' key down and click on 'Standby'. Does it 'Hibernate' correctly now?

hotrod11
Reply #10 Monday, November 6, 2006 8:23 AM
It's weird. I thought for sure it was WB. Then I thought it was Yahoo Widgets, and then and then and then. It turns out whenever I change something ie install, uninstall, change some start menu settings etc it fails to hibernate. Other times it will hibernate 2,3,4, or more times then fail. I've pretty much given up. It works as long as I am not messing around too much.

hotrod11
Reply #11 Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:44 AM
I think I finally found it. It finally gave me an error about "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" apparently there is a MS KB and fix for it. Read about it here. It has to do with computers with more than 1gb of ram.

So far so good!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095

Thanks. And I hope more people learn about this fix, because googling for "computer won't hibernate" never really brought this fix to the top of the list.


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