Sleep.exe?

[Gortok]

On my A64 machine, the client stops with an error saying that sleep.exe is not a 64-bit process (Yes, I'm using Win64beta v1069) and that I should contact the author of the software to see if there is a newer...compatible...blah, blah, blah...

1. What IS this process?
2. Why is it doing this?
AND
3. Should I just run the client on WinXP 32bit (or something else)?

TIA!

[djp]

SLEEP.EXE 20 delays your machine for 20 seconds (for example)

It is there for the purpose of keeping one process from stomping on another while the first one is shutting-down or starting-up.

[Gortok]

ok...so it's used to put the client to sleep for an upload or a update?

[djp]

More on the order of just letting the processes settle down. If you look at the script, you'll see it's only sleeping for a few seconds.

[Gortok]

o-kaaay...So, what would you suggest?
It's done this twice over the last 24 hours...it just gets "hung" at the error box, waiting for me to click OK...

[IronBits]

4 times in fact! We need to find a 64-bit version of sleep.exe

windows2003 resource kit download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[Gortok]

Very COOL!
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much!

[Xelas]

Why not use:

echo Wscript.Sleep 7000 > sleep.vbs
start /wait wscript.exe sleep.vbs

just insert the above two lines instead of the line:

sleep ## > nul

This makes a file that just has "Wscript.Sleep 7000", then executes it. It makes wscript pause for 7000 milliseconds, and exit.

No external files needed, just wscript, which is included in all standard windows installs anyway. No dependancies on processor type!

BTW: This works on Win98 (and maybe even 95). Just replace "/wait" with "/w".

[IronBits]

Thanks for that tip to!

[djp]

That's cool, but here's a bit of code that will run even faster!
Oh, wait. Speed wasn't the goal this time, was it?