Ah, sleep mode — that comforting blanket of power-saving goodness that allows us to take a break without completely shutting down our beloved machines. But what’s actually happening under the hood each time your shiny Windows PC drifts into slumber? Let’s dive deep into the intricacies of this...
Overview of Power States
When it comes to managing the power of your PC, particularly with Windows 11, understanding the differences among shutdown, sleep, and hibernate is essential for optimal energy use and system performance.
Power States Explained
1. Shut Down: The "Shut Down" option...
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I use my Win10 as an pure media file server, is there an way to make Win10 read usage of network and Hibernate if noe network activity is not breing used for the last hour?
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Running a Dell XPS 9710 + Windows 10. I have power management setup the way I’d like except when the computer sleeps, all of my open apps close. I have Hibernate set to never forget brother Batter and AC (although the battery option doesn’t give allow for never, I just have a high...
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I have longer time problem with power options.
I created maximum performance profile active and modified in Control Panel and Settings and saved it, even created restore point.
Computer has not to sleep or selective USB power-off or sleep, hibernate or power-off monitor etc.
Always when I...
After the system goes to sleep once I awake it it hangs at the Windows screen (where time is shown left corner). After a bit I'm greeted with BSOD stating...
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This is a clean install of Windows 10 Pro 1909 18363.535. When I hit the power button (after the diagnostic runs...
For some reason my pc is crashing after coming out of hibernation. Im not entirely sure what is triggering it to actually crash, it will happen when browsing the internet most of the time. Anyone have some suggestions for these particular errors its throwing? The first crash today was at 7:50am...
I have had this problem for some time. Don't remember if it was a problem with build 1803, but for sure since the beginning of build 1809.
I have the screen turning off after 30 minutes, sleep after 60 minutes, and no hibernate. Yet about a third of the time it will not come out of sleep...
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Everything was wider and bigger on the screen. I thought the resolution somehow changed but I changed that back to what I thought was the original 1366 x 738 and everything is not wide any more but everything is still large. The setting for "Change the size of text, apps..." is at 100% but...
Win 10 64. All software updates current. Every time I leave my computer for few hours upon returning I get this window. Any idea of what's happening? I usually get the same window for True Image. Sleep and Hibernate are disabled. This just started in the last week or so.
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I'm trying to speed up long start times. In order to facilitate fast startup I need to enable hibernation. I had this option enabled, but now it's disappeared somehow. I tried bringing it back by using an elevated command prompt:
Powercfg /hibernate on
That didn't work, so what can I do next to...
I have been having a problem with Windows 10 Pro will not sleep for at least a month. No matter what I do it would not sleep. It would Hibernate just fine, and the Display would sleep, but not the PC. In Event Viewer I kept seeing something like "???never sleepagain???? listed relating to Intel...
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My trouble is with sleep and hibernate modes. When either mode is entered the computer won’t wake. (When a ‘wake’ is initiated, the power light comes on, but not the monitor. I’ve seen the hard drive light barely flicker for a fraction of a second, but it doesn’t run for the length of time...
Hi I have a problem which googling hasn't provided an answer too. It's not really a BSOD but a startup issue.
If I start my laptop normally (from powered off), it only gets as far as the first windows logo (no rotating icon) and then powers off.
If I start from a recovery USB and continue to...
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Hello. I have a HP Pro 608 tablet that has many bugs.
1. Most annoying is that the battery icon at the taskbar indicates that the tablet is always plugged. If I disconnect the power adapter, no change with the icon occurs plus there's no change in the screen brightness even if I set it to lower...
Hello. I have a problem with my pc. I have windows 10 installed, and have formatted and installed windows all over again trying to fix this problem but it didn't do it. When I turn on my pc, the windows logo appears for a few seconds and then the computer shuts off. When I press the power button...
Ok, I know this was asked many times, but I tried every solution I could find and after 2 months of searching I decided making my own thread.
PC: ASUS N56JN / R501J (Laptop)
The problem:
PC seems to enter sleep normally(takes about 5-7 seconds for the HDD and power LEDs to go off), but...