power options

Hello all: I just installed Windows 7 with SP 1 last week on my HP Pavilion desktop. I'm trying to have the screen go to black (or screensaver) after, let's say, 15 minutes. I set it and "save changes" but it never goes to black or screensaver. The screen just stays on. I've tried several...

I just upgraded to Win 10 on my Surface Pro 3. I had two problems one of which has been solved. The one that is solved was that my Samsung SDXC card was not recognized. It didn't appear in Device Manager or in Computer Management > Disk Management. I "fixed" the problem by re-installing Windows...

Where do I begin... This recently started happening, I don't know when but I think it was yesterday or the day before, prior to this I've never even seen Windows go into "Resuming Windows", it would just wake up from it's sleeps. But now it seems that every single time I put it to sleep it...

There is no option for hibernate, only sleep, shut down, restart..etc. the usuals...but no hibernate.

How do I activate battery notifications for Windows 8 when the battery reaches a certain level? I did go to Power Options and then to Advanced Settings. I could not find the option to do this. Anyone know?

For the past 2 weeks (approximately), when I click "Shut Down" on my Win 8 laptop, nothing happens. If I click "Sleep," it goes to sleep right away, but it will not shut down. I see by the forum posts that my problem isn't unique. I have tried all three methods described in the post...

(I have Windows 7 Home Premium on a desktop pc) I have been into ... Power Options Change Plan Settings Change Advanced Power Settings and when I expand Sleep there is no Hybrid Sleep option. I have been investigating which is best from Sleep, Hibernate etc and think Hybrid Sleep might be the...

Hi, I observed a problem on my new pc with windows 7. When I try to adjust the screen brightness, the adjustment slider is always in minimum in Control panel>Hardware and Sound>Power Option, as shown in this picture but once I go to the "Edit Plan Settings", the slider is in maximum...

I have audio latency problems on my Win7 x64 (stuttering sound) playing music. LatencyMon does not pinpoint the exact cause, it can basically be anything. After having fiddled with BIOS config, power options, changing drivers back and forth, changing hardware (network card, sound card)...

I disabled Hibernation in Win 7 a couple of weeks ago. I verfied this by viewing START--->Dropdown menu shows now "hibernate" entry. When I look now on C:\ then I can see - hiberfil.sys is still existing - hiberfil.sys is still updated (last modified date=today) How else can I check if...

Since upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 the computer is not always waking up from sleep and hangs The only solution I have found is to turn off the power and reboot The wait cursor shows and the computer will not respond to any keys such as Ctrl Alt Delete or the Windows Key Any...

Hello, I bought this computer to play games, and whenever I play MMORPG like Tera, Final Fantasy XIV, etc I get this crackling sound randomly causing 1 fps then message saying nvidia kernel mode driver has crashed and recovered successfully. I researched a lot in the internet, and I tried...

I have Windonws 7 Professional running on several virtual desktops (VMWare View). The virtual desktops go to sleep after a few minutes, and require a password on wakeup. I've read a number of threads that deal with either disabling password on wakeup, or preventing the OS from going to sleep...

I have an issue with getting a completely black screen. I never see a desktop. I never even see the login screen. If I press the sleep button on the case, then start it back up, I see a mouse pointer too. But on first boot, there is no mouse pointer. Booting in safe mode has the exact same...

I get Windows 7 rebooting on its own under the following condition: I power off the monitor and sometime later when I power it back on, I see that I am at the logon screen. If I never power off the monitor, Windows does not reboot on its own. I did change the power supply. sfc finds nothing...

I bought a new Samsung notebook with a core i7 CPU and an (additional) AMD Radeon HD8870M graphic chip. I guess the AMD Radeon chip is only for those users who are not satisfied with the (speed) of the Intel-built-in graphic chip. What else are the advantages of using the AMD Radeon display...

I have a samsung series 5 chronos windows 8 but somethings wrong with my computer first of all the cmd would close every time i try to open the window and i tried running it with "cmd /k ipconfig /all"on the run window and i tried going into the system32 folder but the windows explorer closes...

I have a sony vaio core i7, 8 gb ram windows 8 pro with hyper-v for windows 8 installed and working. my issue is that all my vms come up fine but after about 10 minutes of inactivity they automatically shut down. I have set all my power options in both the vm and my host as never on all the...

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:confused: I am sorry if this was posted somewhere,but I am not in the mood,because of this problem on my laptop.This is like a crash and a bit of a bug,and it annoys me.The laptop I have is Satellite L755 and owned it for 10 months which is near a year.As of right now, my laptop's battery...