power management

Hi ppl. I recently had BSODs and freezes. I was under the impression these were related. I found that the BSOD was a driver related to a logitech camera, which i ahve unistalled. I have since completed accidently stumbled upon "summary page events" in event viewer and have noticed all these...

With new laptops coming out at a deep discount, many savvy computer users may be interested in taking advantage of such offers and then upgrading their laptop with a 3rd party solid state drive. The most common updates appear to be made through Crucial, OCZ, and Intel, all of whom make decent...

Hello, I hope anybody can help me out here. This is my problem: it's already about a year know since I've assembled my computer. My motherboard seems not to completely shutdown the power of the usb ports. The motherboard I use is a Asus P6T se, I've been searching trough the forum but nothing...

My computer wakes from hibernation. I’m using windows 7 x64. My BIOS doesn’t support any configuration settings about wake, and the LAN device driver states that it doesn’t support wake on LAN. It’s a Dell Lattitude laptop, about 2 years old. No events are relevant. This started...

My Toshiba laptop is running really hot. Running Windows 7. I have gone into the settings and it is on active cooling in processor power management. It goes up to 190 degrees. I have blown out the vents with an air can, it’s all clean. I look at task manager and there is little CPU usage, so...

I am having trouble with my machine not going into sleep mode after the specified time. I ran Powercfg -Energy and got the following message. System Availability Requests:System Required Request The program has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep. Requesting...

my computer's power options have been acting up. it started after i downloaded a windows update and the computer failed to restart. my computer is a laptop and it wont give me the option to choose what happens when i close the lid and nothing happens. also, i do not get a battery icon in the...

Hey pplz, im getting a driver_power_failure (or somthing) BSOD.. it goes off screen too fast! Ive had it twice in 8 days. Both occured on a Sunday at 7:36 (about 2 seconds.. and one week apart!) I checked this with BLUESCREENVIEW which pointed to ntoskrnl.exe but i understand that that is not...

hi there , Where are the settings to set the power down times per hdd on my windows 7 ? thank you

I'm running Windows 7 32 bit and have been having multiple Sleep-related issues. When I leave the computer alone and it goes into Sleep mode, it crashes. When I manually put the computer into sleep mode, it powers off and then when it starts again says that Windows wasn't shut down properly or...

I just bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad T400. This is my 5th Thinkpad. It is a 2767-P1U. It is running Windows 7. I have the Lenovo drivers installed and have upgraded them to the latest available. I have also got Norton Anti-Virus 2011 and Office 2007 Professional. Windows is fully updated as well...

On my new Win7 computer the screensaver is set to come on after 10 minutes, and Power Management is set to turn off the display after 15 minutes. I go away, come back in 2 hours, the desktop is still happily glowing. Gimme a break, how can something as basic as this not work? But then I also...

One thing that is made abundantly clear is that Microsoft has been paying attention to Apple. In the documents, which appear to come from an April meeting with computer makers, Microsoft discusses its Cupertino, Calif.-based rival and outlines plans to offer a Windows Store similar to the way...

sleep mode works fine on my PC but what I want is more control over when sleep mode operates. If I could configure sleep mode to only operate when a certain program isn't running-- in other words sleep mode turns off when a certain program runs... Has anyone any ideas?

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s best operating system to date, but that’s only true on the desktop, a platform it was designed for. For tablets, it’s just terrible, both from a user interface perspective and from a power management one, but Windows 8 won’t be out for a couple of years at least… but in...

Hi, I have a USB TV Tuner which works fine to watch TV in WMC. However, when a programme is set to record, and my laptop goes into sleep mode, I believe it turns off the USB TV Tuner, and therefore the programme doesn't record. WMC support center says that the program is able to record...

Hi everyone! I am new in this forum, but looks like here have really interesting information about Windows 7. So I really like windows 7, I will stay and this forum. And thanks all for great work. So about the problem: I have Dell Latitude XT and Windows 7 installed on it. When PC is a/c...

I've seen lots of similar problems people are having with Windows 7 (and Vista) when they try to wake up their computer after sleep or hibernation, but none of them seem to match my problem. I have a Dell Latitude E6500 with a new, very recent, clean install of Windows 7 Professional. All the...

When I go into hibernation, I have Internet connectivity, as of now. When I come out, for a ? period of time, it has lost it's internet connectivity. The tray icon says "connected", but the browser & email & other things say not. I would be interested in any solutions, although I have tried in...

There are several threads about the network card going to sleep when a laptop is idle, but all of them I've seen just suggest the same things regarding various settings. I still have the same problem despite having set the following settings... In "Change Plan Settings"...