power management

Hello, As a student I had quite a lot of trouble with my previous laptop's battery. It had an autonomy of 4h in the beginning, but one day, while it still had 50%, it suddenly dropped to zero for some reason, and after that incident the battery has never exceeded 50% charge again. So I had to...

Have been running Windows 7 since its inception. Looking for any technical assistance regarding the above topic. 1. Upon boot-up, and after post screen, then Windows Logo, "Monitor Going To Sleep" displaying, BUT the monitor does not go to sleep. 2. Tried searching but could not locate any...

Some time ago after having to reinstall Win7 my computer suddenly began to start the programme anew after I had closed Windows. The time elapsing between closing and starting varied from 2 minutes up to half an hour. Is there any place where I could check the code or alter it so that the...

Hey guys I hope someone can shed some light on this for me as I am at a complete loss. I have a HP pavilion dv6-1129tx laptop it still has the genuine battery in it which is about 4yrs old but I assume it is still alright as it holds charge for over an hour running in battery alone. OS is...

After only 35 yrs in the general purpose OS business, MS cannot devise a reliable "wake from sleep" scheduler. The task scheduler can shut down, or sleep, but not awake with any hope of reliability. The BIOS can set a base "power management" start-up, but it is insensitive to refinements in...

So yesterday I was tampering with the energy settings to find ways to make my computer consume less electricity. Now this morning as I booted up my laptop (a Lenovo L440), the screen brightness setting appears to be stuck between two settings (one at about 70% and the other at maybe 80% -- these...

When I turn on my brand new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, my older PC also powers on. Turning on the PC does not power up the laptop though. Both are running 8.1 and both are associated with the same hotmail account. PC connected to router with Ethernet cable and laptop is connected to wifi. I can...

Hi All, I'm using a dell vostro laptop with windows 7 home edition. My biggest problem is that, the laptop keeps walking up automatically as soon as hibernate process completes. This is very annoying and the only way I could put my laptop to sleep is by shutting down all apps. Any help here...

I realize that the MS Wireless Mouse is not Windows hardware but I don't know where else to ask. The MS wireless mouse 5000s used in both my Win 7 and Win 8.1 systems ignore their power management setting that is supposed to prevent mouse movement from waking the systems from "sleep". The...

My wife has a very strange problem with her Windows 7 desktop: the screen will switch itself off after a while, which is expected and wanted, but it the immediately switches itself on again. Can this be caused by a program she has installed? And is there a way to easily figure out which one?

Hello, I have Windows 7 on Dell. How do I get it to log out automatically after, say, 5 minutes if it was not used? Thanks a lot, Boris

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...

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Rev 1.3 BIOS Ver. : F10B Not going into the overclocking/Voltages/freq Etc section. To access all features do CTRL+F1 to go to "Advanced Mode" This Article gives the best information explaining this options. Link Removed Internal graphic mode...

Every time I need to connect to the internet using WiFi Windows 7 has to run troubleshooter. This is the message that appears on the screen: (Troubleshoot problems > Detecting Problems > Reset your wireless network adapter) Windows resets the network adapter and connects to the internet with no...

Madame, Monsieur, Tout d'abord, je tiens à remercier toutes les personnes qui prennent le temps d'aider les autres sur diverses questions, permettant d'avoir une vraie communauté active. Je me permets de vous contacter car depuis moins d'un mois, j'ai un problème avec un ordinateur Asus X53S...

How can I find out if Hibernation is currently turn on or off WITHOUT changing the on/off state? I prefer a cmdline command.

Asus UL80JT often cannot reconnect to wireless after system hibernate/sleep. Does not even show available networks. Sometime, can use Function F2 to turn on wireless and this causes the wireless to turn on. Other times turning on wireless and even disabling/enabling device doesn't help. The...

Win7 x64 SP1 PRO Office PC Win7 x32/x86 SP1 PRO Media Center PC Issue: How to adjust NAS drive(s) spin up frequency, check to see what is causing them to come out of sleep mode. NAS's are set to power down currently @5mins. Trying to figure out what is causing them to "Wake-up" and how to...

We have a Asus K52Jc running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I started getting complaints that the laptop would randomly shut down. I took a look at it and found that the fan was seized and not cooling down the laptop. I ordered in a new fan and replaced it. The new fan works wonderfully, the only...

Hi, Recently I have been having some strange problems with my PC. I first noticed that I was unable to wake it properly from sleep mode. When I click the mouse the tower powers on, though it doesn't seem to send any output to the monitor and anything plugged into the USB sockets does not power...