power management

The Wake-On-LAN (WOL) feature wakes a computer from a low power state when a network adapter detects a WOL event (typically this is a specially constructed Ethernet packet). The default behavior in response to WOL events has changed from Windows 7 to... Link Removed

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium SP 1 64-bit on a HP 620 (just a year old). Lately, whenever I return to the laptop having left it alone for some time (Power Management set to 'Sleep' after 10 mins), and try to resume, I can hear the it resuming (fans etc.), however, the screen remains...

Hi! I have a new HP laptop with Win7 x64 installed on. When I close the laptop it should go to sleep mode, so when I would open it and turn it on, it should start normally. Instead, it gives me a message screen, where it asks if I want to start Windows in safe mode or start windows normally. It...

Hi i have a PC with intel DH61WW Motherboard and windows 7 Ultimate installed on i and i have a USB Modem Connected to this PC, whenever the Modem is connected to this PC windows won't shutdown it stucks on shutting down windows and i turn it off by pressing the power button for 10 seconds but...

hi i am facing the problem with hibernate before today when i hibernate laptop displays goes off but the laptop is still working and stop when the battery is empty and when again start the laptop it shows windows not shutdown properly and no BSOD ,error detail but now when i press...

Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that is running Windows 7 You customize the Power Plan by editing the GPO using the Group Policy Management Console. Under Computer Configuration or User Configuration Link Removed

Fixes a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 issue in which Bluetooth devices cannot be enumerated after you restart the computer. This issue occurs when the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" option is enabled for the Bluetooth... Link Removed

hi all i own a alienware area51 2.93ghz intel core 2 extreme x6800 any way over the last 3/4 days pc been crashing random blue screen todays being 0x0000124 it will not do the memory dump in the blue screen it will just freeze on it next time the pc boots up it is very slow and have to reboot to...

Fixes an issue in which some power management features are disabled after you install a version of the NDIS filter driver that is earlier than NDIS 6.20. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

The enhancements made to Windows 7 for managing power settings for network adapters greatly reduces the number of spurious wakes, allowing computers to sleep for longer periods of time when idle. Furthermore, you can configure the power management... More...

Hi I have a major problem with this board. I'm using it as a HTPC. I have set windows to automatic go to S4 Hibernate when the machine is not in use, when Ia scheduled record is to be started the machine wakes up record and hibernate again. OR it did so the first 3 days. On the 1st of August I...

First time posting and I am at my wit's end. I pride myself in my knowledge of hardware and software, but I can not figure this one out. I recently purchased a Hauppage 2250 TV tuner card and installed it in my computer. At near the same time, I installed a RAID card to bring my two 250gb...

There is suppose to be a "secret" feature in Windows 8 Power Management scheme called "Memory Power Management", this new section introduced in Windows 8 allows you to change a lot of advanced settings related to memory. It can be accessed by the "WIN+R" key combination and typing in...

Consider the following the scenario: You have a Windows 7 UEFI machine, when you press the space bar during boot, the system does not pause resume from hibernate. What happens instead is that resume continues and the system will boot to Windows 7. Note... Link Removed

Hi, recently I've noticed that when I close my laptop that it won't go to sleep so when I went to change the "when lid closed" options in my power settings they wern't there. I also checked in the power button settings to the side. Any ideas as to why? Link Removed

How to use the Task Manager in Windows 7 Professional This is VERY troublesome. There are numerous comments and suggestions in various forums by frustrated users unable successfully to fight their way through the myriad of options that do not work seamlessly. What worked so easily under XP...

I am trying to figure out how to make my computer sleep when itunes or vlc are the active application but not playing anything. I got sleep# from sourceforge and that seems to be working for vlc. is there some way to override all programs ability to stop the computer from sleeping?

I've been having an ongoing (about 2 months) problem with my laptop getting the BSOD after returning from sleep mode, specifically when unplugging it. When returning from sleep mode, the screen will take longer than normal to turn back on and show the log in screen. After that, it seems like it...

Hello there, so I've been having this problem where my envy 14 laptop will attempt to go into sleep mode (or i'll close the lid) when in reality the screen just shuts off and everything else continues to run. At this point I can't wake the computer up and I have to hard reboot. If i leave the...

Hi. I'm somewhat familiar, with this site. I have been getting this problem a lot, lately. My laptop just wakes up from Sleep, while on battery. It's soooo annoying! I have this info from a CMD command. Maybe, it's relevant? Info: Command I entered on Command Prompt: PowerCFG -LastWake ...