power options

i found ton of posts ppl talking about vista trashing hard drive due to some search indexing or something. NOt sure why caz i have it disabled.. Anyway my problem is not the same, instead i want my hard drive to run all the time like they did back in windows XP. Because W7 stops my hard drives...

Hi, Clean install yesterday of Home Premium 64 bit upgrade. Dual Booting with XP Pro. Never had Vista. None of the automatic power save features seem ti be working in Windows 7. In XP Pro I have the monitor turning off after 10 minutes - works fine. In 7, nothing - monitor never turns...

so i like to listen to pandora before i sleep, is there a way to make windows 7 sleep/standby (not hibernate) after like an hour or after X time?

Hi all, just posting this problem in hope of some answers maybe this is a common problem, I recently installed Windows 7 Pro-Ed, on my HP Pavillion Dv4z-1200 laptop that runs with these specs: Dual-Core AMD Turion X2 2.1GHz 4G DDR2 250GB. I cannot seem to edit the power settings to my laptop...

Hi guys Im using windows 7 64bit build 7100 PC specs are Phenom 2 955BE 4gig ddr3 1333mhz Gigabyte Nvidia 275gtx WD 500gig Sata Asus Xonar u1 I got this comp about 2 months ago and had windows 7 on it since the start, at first i was getting maybe 1 freeze a day but now its probly about 4-5...

Hello, I'm trying to prevent my monitor from going into sleep mode when the computer is not being used. I changed the power options in Control Panel to never turn off monitor and never turn off hard drives then I went into the advanced options and changed the setting to never turn PCIe...

Basically I push the sleep button and the computer stays on but the keyboard lights turn off, so I suppose it's in hybrid sleep. I want my computer to go into Sleep mode and completely shut off. I don't see an option in the power options to disable hybrid sleep, and I even tried to disable it...

i've been from this 2 pages: 1. Link Removed 2. Link Removed and no1 can really solve my problem from this page (2. Link Removed) blizz26 told that: sure this solves the problem, cos what makes the computer freezes is when "turn off display after" is enabled. but, i want to use "turn of...

so i usually have an external plugged in and i usually put my laptop (a hp dv5t) to sleep mode at night, but the external harddrive still stays on. how do i disable usb power in standby mode? i already went into advance power options and couldn't find anything. also, in power settings, USB...

I am trying to find a way to create a custom power plan, so i could shut down computer by pressing sleep button on my keyboard (it doesn't have a power button). When i go to Control Panel -> Power Options and Choose what the power buttons do, i cant select sleep button to shut down computer...

Have no problem using fantastic Remote Desktop on network computers here, but am having problems connecting to a family computer cross country via internet. They configured it just as we did here (enabled, designated Users, passworded Users, turned off Power Options, no router to forward port)...

Hello all, I have searched quite a bit for this problem, and usually it leads no where or people just didn't respond to others with my same problem. First here are my system specs Core i7 3.9 Ghz Foxconn Bloodrage X58 6GB OCZ 1600 triple channel PC Power and Cooling 750watt Water cooled system...

Hi! Just upgraded to Windows 7 RC and loving it so far. Really a change over XP and I'm actually liking the organization a bit more! I've had most of my issues resolved right off the bat as it just "works"! However, 2 issues are plaguing it that I would like to see if I can get some tips on...

Hello everyone. For some reason when I but Windows to Sleep, a couple minutes later it turns itself on again. In the power options I don't have any "auto-wakeup" sort of feature enabled, so I have no idea what it could be. This never happened to me on Vista before, and I checked the Bios and...

Hi, I am using Windows 7 RC & all is running perfect!!!!! ...........except...... I cannot restart/shutdown/hibernate the machine. If I select Restart or Shutdown the machine will stay at the "Shutting Down..." screen forever If I select hibernate the screen goes black... The only way out...

Hello, I have recentley installed Windows 7 RC. Since installing it, I have noticed that when I close my laptop lid, the screen stays on. How do I get the screen to turn off without going into sleep or hibernate mode? I've tried messing around with the power options but nothing seems to work...

I bought an HP laptop and installed Windows 7, 64-bit in order to test it. I've noticed something rather annoying with the power options which may be a bug in the software that others are experiencing as well. Allow me to explain my situation: I use my laptop at work and connect an external...

I am using Windows 7 on my laptop, and I generally switch between High Performance (when the power cable is in) and Power Saver (when the power cable is not in). When I switch between power modes, I click the battery icon, and that brings up a list of the available power schemes. However, it...

I am running win7rc 64 on a home build, asus m2a-vm mb, ati hd4670, 4 gig OCZ ram. All drivers are current win 7 or latest Vista64 drivers. Away device is disabled. Symptoms: when my computer is in use it performs as advertised, no problems with booting lockups or anything. after my machine...

Sorry about the long title but I wasnt sure how else to describe it. I'm running a Dell Dimension 5100c with a new 320gb sata hd and a gig of ram. has a intel p4 3.20 dual core processor. Basicly, after I install windows 7 and get my drivers all good, everything is fantastic. no problems what so...