Random settings change

So, sometimes settings seem to just randomly change. Like today, I noticed my monitor was asleep... Odd, it hasn't been set to go to sleep in months. Sure enough, I went into power settings, and it said it was set to turn off after 20 minutes. I really have no idea why or how it was changed. I know for a fact that I haven't entered power settings in months.

I've also noticed performance seeming to degrade in certain areas, but I doubt that's related.

Does anyone have any ideas why changes like this could just... happen?

It's a wild guess, but it may have something to do with Acronis. Since I now use the boot disk to do my mirrors rather than the program from Windows, I don't really even have a need for it to be installed. I thought, instead of uninstalling it completely, I'd leave it on the hard drive, and just keep it from running and using up resources other than disk space, so I opened up WinPatrol and disabled all of the Acronis stuff, except for the services, because I had forgotten about those. I later thought that may not be a good idea, I'm not really sure what all those items do and whether or not it might mess something up to just disable them in WinPatrol, so I re-enabled them. I don't see how that would have changed anything, unless somehow I inadvertently caused try and decide or something along those lines to change something.

Anyhow, would it hurt to just disable all of the Acronis startup items and services? I really don't need them, but since I'm not sure how they work or what all they do/have done, I'm just not sure. Or would it really just not make any sense to keep it on the hard drive at all?

 

I have the original Acronis disk, and have been using it to mirror my drive to a second drive as a backup, which I'm assuming is the same as what you're talking about. I definitely wouldn't uninstall Acronis without the possibility of reinstalling or using the program again.

I'm still unsure how the setting got changed... I haven't touched any power settings in months. Probably a half a year or better.

 

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing either. Seems like the only thing similar I can find to make in the program is a Bootable Recovery Media, but I believe that the disk that I have is basically the same thing.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/stealthyeliminator/acronisbootmedia.jpg

The Create Bootable Media option?

I'm not sure, but if I'm able to create this disk in the program, and I have the install disk, then I could always reinstall it to create this disk. So, either way, I don't think I'm really permanently loosing anything.

 

I can do this with the disk that I have, even though it may not be exactly the same, so I think I will just uninstall. Thanks. I'm still curious as to why the settings changed, I honestly don't have any idea why it'd do that... I guess it's not that important as simple as it is to change.

 

Well... I knew that was true, I guess I just never really thought of it having the effect or changing the things that it has.

Now that I think about it, I guess it's kind of one of those "duh" things. lol. thanks