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Hi, I wanted to keep my Win 7 laptop running 7/24, so I selected "Never" under "Put computer to sleep" when plugged in in the Power Options. But the system keeps shutting itself down after idling for a few hours. Why??? Appreciate any suggestions.

Hi, Recently this few days after an MS update I think, I've been getting popups regarding a process mscorsvw.exe attempting to connect to the internet from my firewall s/w. It happens often when the pc is idle - I see the alert when I get back. Some checking on my side said that mscorsvw.exe is...

Got another problem..my computer freezes when its being idle for more then 10-15 minutes (not sure how long, should be around that)..so basicaly when I leave the computer running for 15 minutes and doing nothing it suddenly freezes. Whatever I try to do..open task manager whatever its just...

My taskbar with toolbars: address, desktop, links etc becomes just empty blue space after PC was idle. nothing on it and I have to restart to be able to get it back again. Also. in that "state" I can choose application from Start screen but it does not open. Just show on that empty taskbar...

G'day everyone, Just a quick question. I've noticed that when I leave my pc for some time and the screen savers come on, then the screens go blank (my machine doesn't sleep or hibernate) when I use the pc again I can see that during the time the monitors had turned off, the CPU usage was at...

We are using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and when any of the users leave their workstation for any reason and are gone for more than a minute or two, the programs they were running at the time will go to "not responding" when they try to click on anything in them. They cant open new programs...

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I am not the greatest PC user and have had BSOD problems with this computer for a while and just haven't dealt with them. As long as I am actively using the computer then they don't happen. It used to be much more sporadic and would happen if my computer was idle for a half hour or so. Now if I...

I have a Gateway laptop running Windows 7. I have an HP Photosmart 3210 shared on an Intel based Mac. When I send a print job to the printer, the laptop recognizes the printer as ready and shows the job in the print queue. But when I look for the printer on the Mac it says Idle. When I print...

I just purchased an HP desktop. After setup, I kept getting dropped out to the login as soon as the computer was idle. I was told this was a registry problem and to go to safe mode and run SFC. That did not resolve the problem. Then I was advised to simply disable the login by going to RUN...

Getting random BSODs..... please help!!!!! please help guys.... i am getting bsods system works fine for some days.. then a BSOD.. and again a BSOD on the same day.... then again works fine... please help me.. i get it during browsing... or even when the comp. is mostly idle.... or even while...

Hi there. I'm getting this random BSOD since 2 or 3 weeks ago. Sometimes when idle, browsing, and gaming. But sometimes I'm not getting any at all for a whole day. And I also getting this random hangs, freezes, and restarts. Can this be caused by bad hardware? I hope someone can help. :frown:

Link Removed I have been having BSOD occuring randomly. I can go the entire day without seeing one or I could have one within an hour. It seems to happen mostly when my computer is idle. I appreciate the help :)

Currently I've had my new computer for the past month and only a few weeks ago it started giving me troubles. I turned off the screen saver and sleep mode as whenever I left my computer to idle it would BSOD randomly. Even with these features turned off my computer still blue screens and I have...

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Hey W7F, So i recently built a new computer with the following specs: i5-3570K @4.4Ghz Corsair h80 cooler 8gb corsair dominator ram (1600Mhz) MSI 660ti PE Graphics card OCZ Vertex 3 120GB Max IOPS SSD The computer runs perfectly except for one issue. When i leave it to idle(btw hibernation is...

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My system is an Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz bought from Overclockers in August 2010. It has been running at 4GHz without any problems until two days ago when I started getting BSODs. I've reset the BIOS to default (non-overclocked settings) and am still getting the same problems (though not quite...