power settings

Hey everyone. I have a problem with W7 that's really annoying me. Last week, I upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home premium. For some reason, my laptop keeps going to sleep despite disabling sleep mode in the power settings. I should also point out that it happens...

Hello; When I press Sleep at start menu, screen just goes to black for 1-2 seconds and after Windows Logon menu appears. I've tried Allow waker timers to off, When sharing media to Allow the computer to sleep, Allow hybrid sleep to On/Off, USB selective suspend settings to...

yea this sounds like a common "change your power settings" issue, but i have all the settings for plugged in and battery mode to NEVER do anything...and for some reason, recently, the past 2 days or so, the monitor keeps turning off on this laptop when im not using it after a few minutes.. am...

After about 2 or 3 time of going into sleep mode my pc some time won't wake up I would hve to reset and let it boot back up. I started shutting down every night instead of letting it go to sleep. Other than that I built this system and I am very pleased with win 7. Just a few little burps here...

Hello, my friend has a Emachine E627 with windows 7. Whenever her battery dies, if she starts up her computer, her windows 7 user account is gone. This does not occur when just turning off the computer normally, or when she is plugged in to a power outlet. I realize that ideally, it is not...

Hi, I have new Acer Aspire 5739G laptop and fresh Windows 7 on it. The wireless card is Intel WiFi Link 5100. The problem is that wireless works only in short distance with access point - max distance is about 5 meters. In that distance everything works fine. But if I go farther or to...

i have a pre-release/test version of windows 7. I've tried changing my theme, desktop pic, and power settings, but it always reverts to default when i restart my comp. Can anyone help with this?

I'm using Windows 7 x64. No matter what I set the power settings to, the display turns off after 5 minutes, and moving the mouse turns it on. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? HBH

Hi everyone! i just got my copy of WINDOWS 7 today and i did a full reboot. I notice that i cant run any of my software due to my 100% cpu usage.. i barely got any software on it, -Avir anti virus -Win rar - ableton live 7 so there is barely anything on there..my windows 7 is slow...

I have a Dell M6400 Laptop. The spec is quite hefty at Q9300 Quad Code 2.53 Ghz, 8GB Ram, 1GB Nvidia FX 3700M Video. I am running Windows 7, and have recently bought 2 new games, DragonAge, and Modern Warfare 2. When on Battery Power I can run both games in full 1920x1200. The run...

Hi, I have a z61t running Windows 7 Professional on BIOS 2.27. I have a problem that only occurs when I am connected to an external display. When I close the laptop lid, I want it to stay in the external display mode so that my desktop does not jump over to the external display. This used...

Hi all - I've searched around for this issue but haven't quite found one which is the same. I'm running 64-Bit W7, and my computer seems to go to sleep/hibernate randomly, for no particular reason. Like, I could be in the middle of typing an e-mail (hence obviously the computer is...

I always put my computer to sleep at night. Then during the night my computer will wake up, usually a good time after I put it to sleep. I have checked my Wake on land, Mouse, and Keyboard. They are all set to not bring the computer out of sleep. I set them via Device manager under the power...

Here's the low-down: Winows 7 Professional 64-bit Intel Core2 Duo 3.00GHz ATI Radeon 3870 512MB MSI P35 mo'bo 3GB RAM After installing the official release of Windows 7, my CPU will bottom out at 0% and the computer will lock up. I know its bottoming out because I have a Logitech G15 keyboard...

I had a good clean install. Was using Vista, glad to see it go. Everything works great, even got my 1394a card and my Firewire box to work. All software and all drives work good. I really like 7 but, it won't wake up after going to sleep. Have to do a hard shutdown/boot. Default power...

Yesterday was the first time that I tried to use my laptop with Windows 7 on battery. I upgraded 7 from vista as soon as it was available. I got it down to 49% but then when I plugged it back in to charge, it wouldn't charge. It would simply say that it's plugged in and not charging. I know in...

I have tried EVERY possible option I can think of, so if anyone has any ideas, please... If I don't move my mouse, or type anything for 1 minute, Windows 7 automatically brigs me to the log-in screen / change user screen (locks the pc). I have set all the power settings for sleep, hibernate...

My laptop will no longer shut down, hibernate, or sleep. When I choose to shut down the window sits at logging off, and will not change. When I chose to hibernate/sleep it will sit at a black screen, but do nothing more. The fan still blows hard, and it will not come out of the...

Hi, I had Win XP and I configured the "sleep" button in my Microsoft's keyboard to get computer into Stanby mode, which means the computer is set off, but the memory is on and when I click the mouse button the computer starts and show me the state I was before the standby mode (S3). I...