computer sleep

If you rely on the simple act of closing your Windows laptop lid to keep unsaved work safe, it’s time to change that habit—Modern Standby (Windows’ default “instant-on” sleep on many modern laptops) can leave your session vulnerable to battery drain, unexpected wake events, and worst-case data...

Modern Standby — the S0 “instant-on” model Microsoft promotes as the smartphone-like sleep for Windows laptops — has quietly become an Achilles heel for many users, turning closed lids into hot, battery-draining surprises and eroding trust in Windows as a travel-ready platform. Background /...

I have Windows 10 32 bit. Today I had to go out so put the computer to sleep. Just as I was doing that something came up and was gone but it had something to do with my Windows Live Mail. When I opened my computer, my inbox was empty and all my folders where I had saved important information...

Hi I thought that my sound issue had gone away. But I stopped computing for a while and had lunch. When I came back, my computer had gone to sleep and when I woke it up, no sound. I started thinking about it and it may be that this is what has been happening in the past. I often go away from...

So after reading a lot about how to run the report and open it (yes it does not open from the CMD prompt) I was able to find the PCI vendor and device code and ascertain I have the latest drivers from those manufacturers (Gigabyte and ALI). Mainly the USB Root Hub and the USB Mass Storage items...

Every time my computer is using high CPU (30%+ constantly), after about 5 minutes or so (the more CPU being used, the faster it does this) the fan on my computer will start going really fast and if I don't close the program that is using the CPU then my computer will go to sleep by itself. I...

I am running Windows 8 Pro, with two USB external drives attached. One drive is "dormant", and the other is used for file backups. I have noticed that when the computer exits from sleep mode, either one or both external USB drive folders will open on the desktop. I can only guess this signifies...

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Since release day I've been having some issues with windows 8. Nothing too bad, just a few small issues here and there. Too be expected this early in the products life. However, I seem to have narrowed my windows 8 issues tonight. My USB keyboard started typing random characters and acted...

I have recently got my Sony Vaio VPCSB19GG which runs i7-2620M Memory4Gb with Solid State Drive 256GB which comes with Windows7 Professional (64-bit). i have been using it for around 2 weeks and from the first day i had divided my SSD into 2 partitions C and D, and recently this problem occur...

I'm trying to create a scheduled task that will wake my computer weekly to run a Security Essentials full scan. Apparently, the MSE scheduler does not wake the computer for scans but DOES put the computer to sleep during a scan if the sleep timer is set for less time than the scan requires (mine...

I have a fresh install of Windows 7 64 bit, and I am running two SSD's. Yesterday I had no computer issues what so ever, last night my computer went to "sleep", this morning I wake it up and my secondary SSD is not showing up in "my computer" or "disc management". I restarted and even unplugged...

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I have a HP Pavilion a6607c with Windows 7 64 bit installed, the computer goes to sleep just fine, but when I try to wake it from sleep everything turns on but no fully fans working but the LED light goes from blue back to orange as if it is stuck in sleep mode, I have updated the bios but im...

Computer went automatically to sleep, and never came back. Had to shutdown... profile got corrupted and logged as "temporary profile". So I created 2 new accounts, logged to one of them, copied all my old things to the other new account and logged to that account. The problem is that all my...

W7HP edition. Sometimes my computer will go to sleep, but most of the time it won't. The only time it will guarantee to go to sleep, is if I am downloading a large file. If I am downloading, 100% of the time, it will go to sleep. Is there a setting somewhere, that will tell the computer to not...

Hello; When I press Sleep at start menu, screen just goes to black for 1-2 seconds and after Windows Logon menu appears. I've tried Allow waker timers to off, When sharing media to Allow the computer to sleep, Allow hybrid sleep to On/Off, USB selective suspend settings to...

ok so I just built my computer and it was working fine I installed windows 7 on it fresh it was the first os on it was running it for a couple days and the other day i put the computer to sleep and then when i went to wake it up it would not wake up kept messing with it still nothing so i turned...

I have a few issues with sleep on my desktop machine that is running Windows 7 RTM. My machine consists of the following: [DFI JR X58-T3H6] [i7 920 D0] [12GB OCZ OCZ3B2000C9LV6GK] [Corsair CMPSU-750TX] [Windows 7 (64bit)] [EVGA 280 GTX][OCZ Vertex 30GB x 3 in RAID0] I'll start with the most...

Hey all, Im having this problem. My power plan i have set for my computer to go to sleep at 30 minutes. Well it works fine, then after a few days it stops going to sleep. When I check my power plan it tells me power plan information isn't available and wont let me change it. Ok, well I tried a...