sleep mode

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?

Within the past month or so I've noticed that my Win7 SP1 desktop has stopped returning to sleep after the task scheduler runs any one of the 3 scheduled tasks for which "wake the computer..." is set as a condition. I put the system to sleep each night with "defrag", "restore" and "backup" set...

Hi All, My PC was running great but when I started it from overnight sleep, which woke at the normal speed, I as always did a manual update to Avast definitions. It did the download as quick as always, but then during the "saving package" it hung. I left it like that for some minutes, and then...

Hi there Can anyone help. Whenever I put the computer to sleep I get the blue screen of death. Thanks

On 05/06 after installing (thru Windows Update) the AMD SATA Contoller , the AMD - Other hardware - Storage Controller - AMD SATA Contoller & IE 10 for Windows 7 for x64 based systems, the problems BSOD began. As Critical Evens (2) I got : Windows Stopped working & Shutdown Unexpectedly...

Hey I am in need of help and am desperate for it. In the last day my Microsoft Surface Pro has BSOD 6 times after I power if up after being put to sleep. I can't seem to find what driver is causing this and was hoping your guys could help me out! If you need specs of a Surface Pro I will...

I have an HP Pavilion dv6-2157sb running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, 64-bit OS. I bought it in the summer of 2010 for law school. The laptop has served me faithfully through law school. After almost three years, however, it began booting up with the time being incorrect. Commonly, the time stamp...

:confused: I am sorry if this was posted somewhere,but I am not in the mood,because of this problem on my laptop.This is like a crash and a bit of a bug,and it annoys me.The laptop I have is Satellite L755 and owned it for 10 months which is near a year.As of right now, my laptop's battery...

I have a very unique problem. My computer will be in sleep mode, and any little change in electrical current on the circuit will cause it to wake up (lamps, lights turning on or off, plugging things in, etc.) My question is, is there anything I can do to prevent the power supply from waking my...

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...

I am running Windows 8 Pro, with two USB external drives attached. One drive is "dormant", and the other is used for file backups. I have noticed that when the computer exits from sleep mode, either one or both external USB drive folders will open on the desktop. I can only guess this signifies...

Hello there! I'm having a bit of an issue with my HP Pavilion dv6 lap top. The specs are AMD A8-3520M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.60 GHz. 6.00GB RAM. 64-bit OS. This started about 2 and a half weeks ago and i'm not entirely sure from what. I've updated graphic drivers and sound drivers but...

I was running Windows 7 for a long time with no problem. It would sleep and wake up just fine. One day, it would not go to sleep any more. I never got to fix it before upgrading to Windows 8. After upgrading, the system still would not go to sleep. I did some research and basically found...