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OK, Two Linkstations on our network - one for general storage plus ongoing backups, the other one - in an office at the far end of the garden - just does a weekly backup from the first one.  Two PCs - mine an HP laptop running Windows 10, my wife's an older Compaq laptop running Vista (I think).  Both have NASNavigator 2 installed and running.

Both Linkstations set to Auto so when both PCs shut down they both turn themselves off (saves power/money and reduces noise) and then wake up when either PC turned on.  Been set up this way for ages and all working fine.

Bang - yesterday - my computer (Windows 10) turned on but Linkstations don't start, had to physically turn Linkstations to On to make it happen. Not ideal.

Today I browse the forum and find some messages from 2009 that refer to similar problem and the NAS PM service.  So I open task manager and find the NAS Power Management Service (32 bit) and nested below that the NAS PM service.  The NAS Power Management Service shows it is using 15 - 18% of my CPU. The NAS PM service shows no figures for CPU etc usage.  As I now have the LinkStations boxes set to 'on' and not 'auto' I am tempted to kill the NAS Power Management Service, I do that.......and everything keeps working.

So, should I be updating NAS Navigator (it is version 2.51), or what?  Any pointers much appreciated - would really like to be back to using these in Auto Mode, but not at the expense of 18% of my CPU.

Just to complete the picture, the two LinkStations are:

1)  LS-WX1.0TL/R1 running firmware 1.34 and set as RAID0

2) LS-WX4.0TL/R1 running firmware 1.71 running RAID1