power options

I use a Goflex 2Tb external drive for daily backup. Unlike it's eSATA predecessors it doesn't have a power switch and Win 7 doesn't cut USB power upon safe removal. There is no point in it being on all day, but to cut the power properly I have to unplug it from the back of the PC and that's a...

Hi Whenever my system is woken from I assume its sleep mode ( My power options are Sleep mode after 30mins and 'Turn off Display' after 10mins". I commonly find some programs will not work,they start to load up and then hang. A windows 7 prompt comes up and I then click 'Show problem details'...

I recently found windows 7 hibernate not working. I dont think it is caused by any software or driver. I assume all power option settings are correct. hibernate is active in shutown menu. when I hit hibernate the screen would turn off, then after 2 seconds it turn back on, back to windows...

Consider the following scenario: In Power Option control Panel->"Define power buttons and turn on password prection" window , you choose "shut down" in the Power button setting drop-down list. Restart the computer. While system is booting up, press the... Link Removed

Under Power Options in the control panel, the plan settings for My Custom Plan 1 are for the display to turn off and the computer to sleep after 2 hours sitting idle...it is not working. I tried bumping it to an hour for each and it still does not work. Any ideas? Thank you for any advice...

my computer's power options have been acting up. it started after i downloaded a windows update and the computer failed to restart. my computer is a laptop and it wont give me the option to choose what happens when i close the lid and nothing happens. also, i do not get a battery icon in the...

Microsoft has added a new feature called Hybrid Boot to current builds of the operating system which appears to be active by default. Hybrid Boot has been designed to reduce startup times after shutting down the computer. For that, the shut down has been turned into a hibernation like feature to...

Have been running Win 7 for over a year and never had a problem putting computer into Hibernate. Now suddenly it won't Hibernate. I'm running a dual boot system with Ubuntu 10.10 which incidentally does Hibernate just fine. Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this ? Regards, Bruce

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...