power options

Step-by-Step Guide to Close Your Laptop Lid While Using an External Monitor To configure your laptop so you can close the lid while still using an external monitor, follow these straightforward steps: Access Control Panel: Open the Control Panel by pressing the Windows key, typing "Control...

In the ever-evolving landscape of Windows operating systems, Microsoft has been gradually shifting functionalities from the traditional Control Panel to the newer Settings app since the inception of Windows 8. Fast forward to the current era with Windows 11, and both applications remain in...

I'm running Win 11 on a Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, and my system is up to date. I recently lost the ability to have my notebook power up when I open the lid. So, I went to the Power Options setting in Control Panel setting for advanced power setting and looked at both Samsung Mode and Balanced Mode...

One day i tried to start my pc and got the blue screen with the code: 0xc00000e and following an tutorial i formated the 100mb boot partition and rebuild it with the command bcdboot c:\windows /l en-us /s z: /f UEFI My windows booted fine after that but thinks whare not right. The first...

Hi everybody! I just got a brand new Dell XPS 8950 with preinstalled W11. At first I thought I am seeing things, but now I know it for sure: clicking the Start button (the left on the bottom), and then clicking the On/Off power symbol on the bottom right does... nothing! I have to click it again...

I don't know what it is, but my screensaver keeps turning it's self off. I'll go to the settings and see that it's set to NONE. Any ideas ?

For a few weeks I’ve had a couple of issues, I don’t know if related, with Updates. It may have to do with the October 2020 update v.20H2. [only because I have seen it] When I go to Start/Power, I get two options: Update and restart, Update and shutdown. When I do either, it starts the update...

I have a relatively new desktop running Windows 10. Recently it started waking from hibernation (I haven’t tested it with sleep mode, but I assume it would do the same) every 5 minutes from approximately midnight until approximately 2:00 AM. When I say every 5 minutes I mean exactly every 5...

Hi! I have longer time problem with power options. I created maximum performance profile active and modified in Control Panel and Settings and saved it, even created restore point. Computer has not to sleep or selective USB power-off or sleep, hibernate or power-off monitor etc. Always when I...

This is quite a long read but please bear with me. I used to use a shutdown (.bat) script in win7 to backup my important stuff but couldn't make it work in win10 despite spending hours on the forums. It did work intermittently if I put it in the local logoff folder (group policies). So I wrote...

Since the new update, when I click my "Sleep" shortcut, or hit the related hotkey, I also have to confirm in a popup box that I want Rundll32 to "make changes to my device, thus totally negating the utility of having a one touch hotkey. Is there some way the avoid this second step and let the...

Search in Windows Server 2016 is very weak, For example, as I tried to search “Power”, the “power option” is not populated! What could be the issue here? Is there a way to enhance the search in Windows Server 2016?

I did select the options to do this but they don't seem to work anymore :( Anyone else having problems ? Thanks. Any fix ? Reason I want this is because I remote connect to this laptop sometimes and don't want to keep the laptop open all the time. Thanks. Without the screen open remote connect...

hello everyone, I'm new to this forum - hope we will have a nice time I'm trying for weeks now to schedule a task to run a jar file every day at 3:20 pm. the trick is - I want it to work when my laptop is in "sleep" (not "sleep mode"). The best I got was that the jar was succesfully activated...

I have a w10 laptop. I used the window key, power, sleep and now it won't wake up. I've never used it before. Is there a special way to wake the pc up? I've tried all I can think of. Any help would be great. Thank you, R

How can I put my current screen/monitor into sleep mode (e.g. after 2h) and NOT turn it off completely (after 2h) ? When I go to Control Panel--Hardware and Sound ---Power Options and switch for example to my currently active "Balanced" plan then I have the choice: what to do with...

I have had this problem for about a month...when my desktop image closes...my desktop goes to black, until i bring up task scheduler, my program comes back, and I then have to close task scheduler in order to get back. also goes to black after 10 min or so...and then i have to go back thru the...

I have a Windows 8.1 system which does not display the "Put the computer to sleep" option. My goal is to set this system to never sleep so it continues to run when unattended. This is one of four Win8.1 VMs, three of which display normal Power Option settings, while this one does not. On this...

I want to skip logon after standby in Windows 10 so that I can make automatic backups. One way should be to go to Power Settings and change the settings for logon, but in my computer there is no possibility for changing these settings perhaps because I do not have a Microsoft account and do...

I'm trying to adjust the power options on my laptop so that the CPU doesn't run as hot (which consequently increases the fan). I set the "Minimum processor state" to a value lower than 100% but, no matter what value I enter, Windows doesn't seem to be using it. The "Maximum Frequency" that shows...