power options

I "successfully" applied SP1 to my W7 system. Two issues: 1) the hibernate/sleep function is gone. This is a desk top. At the end of the hour, the system shuts down. No USB/mouse wakeup. Pressing power-on does a reboot. The W7 power options seem to be set correctly (unless I am missing...

sleep mode works fine on my PC but what I want is more control over when sleep mode operates. If I could configure sleep mode to only operate when a certain program isn't running-- in other words sleep mode turns off when a certain program runs... Has anyone any ideas?

Hey guys, Recently, I have not been able to get my computer to sleep. I used to press a button on the keyboard and it would go to sleep, this worked until a couple of days ago. When I press the button now, the monitors go black and then take me to the login screen. I have already done a...

I have an HP HDX18 Notebook PC with 2.66GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 6GB RAM, (2) 500GB Hard Drives, Vista Ultimate 64-bit - SP2. I'm really tired of all the glitches and issues occuring in the Vista OS, so I recently purchased the Windows 7 Upgrade software. I know this isn't a Vista support forum...

I've installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit into the mentioned Laptop. Before I activated the Windows 7, the Hibernate feature is working fine. After I've keying in the License Key, the Hibernate Feature is keep going to Sleeping Mode. Anyone could help me to solve my problem? Thanking you in...

Hi, I have my computer configured to turn display off after 3 minutes. After that time, the display turns off and when I press the power button on my pc case, it just turns the display on, so I have to press it again to enter standby mode. Is there a way to make the power button enter standby...

System specs Operating System MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit CPU Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz 92 °F Conroe 65nm Technology RAM 3.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz (6-5-5-17) Motherboard FOXCONN Napa (Socket 775) Graphics W1943 @ 1360x768 128MB GeForce 7100 / nForce...

I have a Toshiba L455 (Windows 7 x64) and everytime I put it to sleep manually, it seems as if only the monitor goes to sleep. All the status lights (wifi, HDD activity) remain on, but my laptop won't come back to sleep despite all attempts. The only way to shut it down or get any feedback from...

I've seen some very similar threads, but I did not find one that seemed to be the exact issue... or at least one with an answer. If this is a repeat, I'm sorry. Please direct me to the forum with the answer! So when my computer goes into hibernation (I believe only then), and I try to wake...

I have a sleep and power button on my PC but Windows 7 doesn't let me change what the sleep button does. It isn't even an option - it doesn't think I have a sleep button. When I press it the PC restars, but not properly. The safe mode screen comes up. This is what the options look like...

Because of an issue with an external drive, i have to not allow the power saving feature for hard drives. Apparently my external (LaCie) doesn't support power saving and when W7 enacts the mode the drive stalls. The problem being i have a total of 6 hard drives. I'd like the others to power save...

hey guys, I'm new here and having problems with my girlfriends laptop. it's a Toshiba Satellite A505-S6005, only a few months old. Recently, within the past 2 days, it's been giving trouble with shutting down or restarting... in other words.... it won't. only way seems to be to hold down the...

When I first got my Dell Inspiron Windows 7, 64 bit, the power button in the start menu had all the options: shut down, hibernate, log off,switch users. A couple of weeks ago it changed and now only has Log Off and Switch Users. I cannot change it in the Properties box because it only has the 2...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...

I can't change the SHUTDOWN to SLEEP on the start menu. When I do nothing happens - IE it doesn't change. The last time it was SLEEP it spontaneously changed to SHUTDOWN. what is going on????????????????

A couple days ago, my computer hung after going into an idle induced sleep. It would not wake up. I had to power off. This problem continues. Another symptom is it will not shutdown or hybernate. It starts back up again. Things I've already done: Uninstall Roxio Turn off Wakeup on Lan...

Good day. The Acer monitor here on my home-built computer enters power save mode (the power light turns amber) exactly 20 minutes after I last touch the keyboard or mouse. When I am watching movies on my computer, it gets frustrating that I have to move the mouse every so often just so that I...

Hi Folks, Cybermoron posted a thread on creating a nifty shutdown button on the Win 7 desktop to make shutdown\restart easier. I posted that I use a similar method to shutdown\restart my Ubuntu installs using a simple python script. He suggested I share that here in the Linux section so here...

How do I change the SHUTDOWN button to a SLEEP button at the bottom of the Start Menu???

An alternative to the shutdown menu is clickable shortcuts. Right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> Location of the item: Shutdown Computer Shutdown.exe -s -t 00 Restart Computer Shutdown.exe -r -t 00 Lock Workstation Rundll32.exe User32.dll,LockWorkStation Hibernate Computer...