sleep mode

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...

Way back in the good old days I use to use a screen saver that had an option to require a password to unlock the screen saver. I looked at the options on all my default screen savers and that option is not available. Also, if I use the sleep that requires my name & password, where do I see...

Hello, Could anyone help as to why I am having these odd pixels show? See picture attached. It either happens after the computer has gone to sleep or a very light version happens after I turn it on. It often crashes after it happens when it has gone to sleep or I after I have closed the and...

When I boot the pc (or get out of sleep mode) I want to see the login screen, like on win 7. I don;t want to see that multicolourfull lollipop screen which you need to click again to get to the login screen. How to skip the splashscreen on boot?

My Win 7 PC seems to freeze a few minutes or 10 minutes after resuming from sleep (not hibernation). This has only started to happen in the last 3 weeks or so. Up until that point it has been fine (PC was bought in 2008). Any help would be much appreciated Win 7 EVGA 750I SLI nForce 8 G ram 1...

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...

Since upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 the computer is not always waking up from sleep and hangs The only solution I have found is to turn off the power and reboot The wait cursor shows and the computer will not respond to any keys such as Ctrl Alt Delete or the Windows Key Any...

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...

Win 7 64 bit. When I put the computer to sleep Windows wants to shutdown to load the Office 2007 updates. I let Windows do this a few times, but the message continues to appear for the same set of updates every time I want to use sleep. The update history shows the updates have been installed.

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 a Seagate 2T USB 3.0 HD and about once a week after comming out of sleep mode I get a box that asks me to scan drive for errors. The first couple of times I scanned it but never found any errors. It takes a couple of hours to do. It also changes the drive letter from E to F. I go to Disk...

This continuous signing in in win8 drives bonkers. Any way to do away with it, I use the sleep a lot & each time have to sign in. .................nick

Win7 x64 SP1 PRO Office PC Win7 x32/x86 SP1 PRO Media Center PC Issue: How to adjust NAS drive(s) spin up frequency, check to see what is causing them to come out of sleep mode. NAS's are set to power down currently @5mins. Trying to figure out what is causing them to "Wake-up" and how to...

my computer goes to sleep after 45min and when i push a key on my keyboard or move the mouse it should wakeup and my monitor should turn on but they dont when i had one monitor setup it worked just fine but with 2 monitors i have to push my power button to get my computer back on. i have a...

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...

Hi I have an Acer Aspire 5740 and had dual booted WIn 7 and 8. All worked fine but fo t he past month the laptop goes into sleep then I return to use it and find it switched on after it has rebooted. It seems it is always crashing and restarting. I attach the dump for any help please? Dump...

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?