power settings

this machine just has 1 user - me. in user settings, i'm listed as administrator of course. yet i'm still always bombarded with "administrator privilege" prompts, and currently............ i'm trying to untick "fast startup" under power settings. it's greyed out, as if i don't have...

I've done a fairly cursory search through the forum, and haven't seen my specific issue mentioned, so here goes. I have Win7 and the screensaver is acting weird. Before anyone asks, I've checked all the settings regarding the amount of time before the screensaver comes on, before the computer...

I bought an HP laptop for my daughter for the holidays. Once she started using it the computer was giving us issues, so we sent it back to HP for repairs. Turned out it had a bad power supply or something. Anyhow, I didn't have any issues with it until today when my daughter can't play her...

After a reset all is fine except I have lost sleep. I have followed all the Google advice but nothing. I went to power advanced and clicked 'features that are not visible''. I tried everything I could but still I only have restart and shut off. I found a cmd prompt that did not work which makes...

I can put my system to sleep and it will wake up after about 5 seconds. I found something I had not seen before and was wondering if anyone knew what it was. As far as I know, I do not have any streaming music happening. I just changed my power settings to see if the Multimedia Streaming...

For some reason my computer has just started turning the brightness on my laptop to 100% when the battery is connected. This is a seriously pain in my eyes and i usually keep my brightness around 20 unless watched videos. So at first i would just alter the display settings of the 'Balanced...

Recently Windows shuts down when idle after the pre set sleep interval expires. When I set my display to blank after 15 min and my PC to sleep after 20 min my PC will shut down rather than go to sleep as it is suppose to. I have extended the sleep interval to an hour to avoid shutdown. I...

Hi there, I am transferring a large amount of data and need to leave the PC on overnight. I believe I have configured Windows 7 Professional so that automatic restarts for updates are disabled, yet the PC still sometimes shuts down when left on for long periods. Any advice on how to prevent...

Here's the situation: • I have Windows 7 SP1 running on an MSI Z97-G55 mobo with latest BIOS (updated today). • My router, a Linksys E3000, is running DD-WRT (updated today) Here are the steps I have taken to try to get it to work: 1. Static IP is set and works just fine. 2. I've added the...

Hey guys I hope someone can shed some light on this for me as I am at a complete loss. I have a HP pavilion dv6-1129tx laptop it still has the genuine battery in it which is about 4yrs old but I assume it is still alright as it holds charge for over an hour running in battery alone. OS is...

Windows 7 professional 64 bit , i put my computer to sleep and it take about 1-2 min then my computer shuts off completely and i have to turn it on by pressing the power button, and windows starts and says windows did not shut down properly, restart normally or safe mode , command prompt, why...

When I turn on my brand new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, my older PC also powers on. Turning on the PC does not power up the laptop though. Both are running 8.1 and both are associated with the same hotmail account. PC connected to router with Ethernet cable and laptop is connected to wifi. I can...

My PC ignores all power settings and hibernates after approx 5 minutes of user inactivity. It is a Dell Vostro 200, which I had been running successfully on Windows 8 Pro. The problem appears to have been the result of upgrading to Windows 8.1. Regardless of the power scheme settings, the PC...

Hello everybody; First of all im using 8.1 for a while now and when i put my computer into sleep mode it sleeps for 2 hours or something and opens again by itself. I tried to fix it from settings and stuff but it didnt work. Please help me. (I can give any info bout my PC if you need it) Thank you!

I have an HP Probook 4530s that the hard disk got corrupted. I cannot find my recovery DVD's so I simply re-installed windows 7 from a retail package (and used my computers product code. That part seemed to have worked fine. Where I am running into a problem is that when the laptop goes into...

Simple and straight forward as the title says. When I choose to put my computer into sleep, just about 2 seconds after it goes into sleep mode it starts up again. I found the problem, but I have no idea what it means or how to fix it. Also, my computer never goes to sleep on its own even...

I had a client very upset because the windows 8.1 update killed her Sonicmaster (s500c) touchscreen. As it turns out; The problem is caused by the lid switch… the Power4Gear software which powers Asus power setting defaults to sleep mode when the lid is shut. You can adjust this profile to...

i have hp pavilion g6 note book am already facing such an annoying problem i have set sleep mode settings to never never for both plugged and unplugged but after about 5 or 6 hours the computer turns of i have to press the power button to turn it on again when i move my hand on the touch the...

Hello So this week a purchased a new laptop [Asus N550JV], after installing the updates and updating the drivers it worked fine until... this morning I wanted to wake it from sleep mode. The log-in screen was a bit different, in the way that there was no way to log in: it just showed my name...

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...