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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...

I have changed my HTPC from a tower to the HTPC case. New everything except the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI card/cable card. Have identical Windows 7/64 Pro systems. Tried to copy all the power / sleep settings. New HTPC system will not sleep when it should. It is set to sleep after 10 minutes...

I have changed my HTPC from a tower to the HTPC case. New everything except the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI card/cable card. Have identical Windows 7/64 Pro systems. Tried to copy all the power / sleep settings. New HTPC system will not sleep when it should. It is set to sleep after 10 minutes...

First of all i was unable to configure my advanced power options, i.e- create new power plan, choose what power button does or closing lid does? I restored the settings & restarted but couldn't solve it. This is what i get while trying to fix this:- Link Removed Somehow, then i thought of...

Hi, Recently I have been having some strange problems with my PC. I first noticed that I was unable to wake it properly from sleep mode. When I click the mouse the tower powers on, though it doesn't seem to send any output to the monitor and anything plugged into the USB sockets does not power...

I have a number of different drives that I use for different purposes but I only use two of them frequently. I would like for the others to enter sleep mode when not in use, but never my main two. Is there any way to edit power saving settings for individual drives?

Hi, Windows 7. After 5 minutes or so the computer defaults to the sign in screen. I am running multiple computers exactly alike in my office, and all are fine except this one. I have gone to power settings and assigned 'never' turn off in all the appropriate places. As soon as I click on the...

My Acer M5811 will not wake up from sleep mode on intermittent basis. Running Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. Power settings are disabled for both the monitor and CPU. I have also disabled "allow computer to shut off applications to save power" to devices. I never had this issue until I installed...

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I installed Windows 8 and another monitor on my GeForce GT 240 video card. I have one monitor on a DVI and another monitor on VGA. Every couple of minutes the computer shuts down. It can be anywhere from one minute to one hour or maybe not at all. My power setting or set to NEVER on both monitor...

Hi sorry about his probably familiar type of first post from a non expert who badly needs some help.I have just been given a Fujitsu Lifebook S6540 running windows 7 and on the whole it is fine but it is eating the battery when switched off. Research on the internet has shown that the computer...

When I close the lid it doesn't shut off, keycommands are ignored and the screen remains black leading my to hit power switch I've had the issue since 06/2012 Since then it stopped and continued from 09/2012 Critical 24/06/2012 00:23:16 Kernel-Power 41 (63) Critical 17/09/2012...

when my system starts up it always opens my personal file.. How do I stop it happening ? Also when I put my desktop PC to sleep I tweaked it so when I wake it up I don't have to use password.. however when pc goes to sleep automatically when I wake it up it says it is locked and asking me for...

Is there a way to prevent my system from waking up from sleep unless i press the tower power on button? Like prevent keyboard taps, mouse clicks & so forth? Just that my system is waking up on its own for no reason when i put it to sleep & its annoying me. Thanks

Hi, There's a problem with my laptop performence (HP Pavillion dm4-1265dx Entertainment PC), The gmes are realy slow, my brother have a HP Pavillion dv6 and it supports all kind of games, I may know the answer, when he plugs the charger the whole screen goes black and then come back in 1 second...