power management

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...

Hi fast question. My mobo Asus Z170-P and psu Corsair 750RM. 3 months ago there was power outage ( for short time ) in my house,and my pc restart with message: "“Power supply surges detected during the previous power on ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable supply unit.”...

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I've been running Win10 on my (old) laptop for about 6 months now. In the last few months I've noticed some problems with power management. 90%+ of the time the laptop is on my desk, plugged in. (Which I know is not ideal for battery life.) But when it's unplugged, sometimes it has issues. *...

update no F!"/ way I only maintained the power button pressed to force shutdown and that solved everything for ulterior shut downs... until now Hello, I was trying to solve my bluetooth mouse disconnecting issues but I got a "bigger" one. I went to device manager and under human interface...

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...

So I recently ordered a new PC, I'm waiting for shipping right now. It's the iBuyPower WA563R7. It comes with a 500w power supply, and I was wondering what a good upgrade would be. I plan on adding a better GPU in the near future, what would be a good upgrade? Thanks guys! Here's a link to the...

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Hey everyone, does anybody know how to stop Win 10 from changing the display brightness each time I connect / disconnect the charger? To prevent any misunderstanding, I am not reffering to the adaptive display settings regarding specific power plans. Thanks! Markus

Hey everyone, to prolong battery life I would like a tool, program, way to have my laptop stop charging, when the battery is at 80% (or more?!) of its capacity. To then wait for it to drop to 40% and only then start charging again. This obviously can only be a temporary tweak (e.g. when the...

Hey everyone, for my convenience I already created Desktop Shortcuts [to cmds I created] to switch between power plans before starting or having just quit a high performance or idle program. However it would be really neat, if I could tie clicking certain exes in the taskbar to entering that...

for quite a while now I have had wake on loan working on windows 7 and on the subsequent windows 10 upgrade, however in the last week or so it has stopped working: port forwarding (ports 7 and 9) on the router still active, I've also updated drivers for the network card and rolled them back, the...

This is a variant of "Windows 10 won't stay in Hibernation". I've unchecked any tasks with "Wake the computer to perform this task" and in any case there is nothing scheduled for 02:55 and 14:55. Has anyone else experienced this?

Had Windows 7 ultimate just upgraded to Windows 10. Install seemed to go ok. However after 15ish minutes the monitor power down saying no signal. Computer stays running. Only way to get it back on is to turn the tower off and on again, then 15 mins later same again. Spoke to Microsoft lad tied...

Hello, Everytime i'm not charging I automatically switch to the energy safe performance program. Is there a way to change this and to always be in the High performance program? Thanks in advance!

I have messed with every power option setting. Turned off all screen savers. I dont have a third party screen saver. I have all my updates but my computer keeps going to sleep after 2min. Is it a bug or am I missing something? Need some help. Thanks!

Hi all, new to this forum, i just got a surface 3, love it. I just upgraded it to windows 10 from windows 8. this update sucks, battery life is quarter of what it was. When i unplugged it this morning it was at 100%, it sat for 2 hours without being used and the battery dropped to 75%. Anybody...

Okay, I recently replaced the power supply on my desktop machine. This was after, this last Sunday, I went to turn the machine on and the power button wouldn't do anything. It was dead as a Dalek. I replaced the power supply with a Thermaltake TR2 600W ATX PS, and the machine powered on fine...

I have a SSD with Windows 10 installed. I need of Hibernation function very much; And all time which I do Hibernation, and the PC turn off, to back for work, crashes. The session is lost. I use UEFI of Asus. Just complementing The problem that I previously said, I have installed Windows 10 on...

Hi. I'm trying to wake my win 7 pc from sleep (not from hibernation) using task scheduler but I'm having some problems. The pc does not wake up. I have set a task that has an action to starts cmd.exe and argument is "/c "exit"". Windows runs as a shell and apparently running windows as a shell...