sleep settings

When my PC sleeps so does my WI-FI. Some of my apps need WI-FI to updated, do backups etc. even when my PC sleeps. How do I keep the WI-FI awke.

When it comes to managing a Windows computer’s performance and energy usage, the power plan is the silent puppet master behind the curtain. Most users are passingly familiar with the default offerings—Power Saver, Balanced, and High Performance—and perhaps even switch between them when...

Ever wondered how to coax more life out of your PC’s battery or prevent that persistent screen burn from an inactive display? Windows makes it surprisingly simple to fine-tune your device’s power and sleep settings. In today’s detailed exploration, we’ll walk you through adjusting these settings...

Hi I use my Win10 as an pure media file server, is there an way to make Win10 read usage of network and Hibernate if noe network activity is not breing used for the last hour? Petter

Where can I find the power and sleep settings in windows 11? The "Power" settings under "system", with "Screen and Sleep" does nothing. I set them both to 1 minute to test them and got nothing.

Hi Guys, This is my first post! Before I begin I have done some reading up on this issue but not found a solution specific to my problem. My kids had a PlayStation 4 which packed up last month. Instead of buying them a new PlayStation (I refuse to pay playstations ridiculous prices for their...

Windows 10 sometimes happening pretty often when I put my pc to sleep I find it going after a minute or so pls help me fix .

I have installed the creators update and have lost the "sleep" option under the power button, can someone tell me how to get it back, Also I use a 22inch TV as a monitor via a HDMI cable and cannot get the sound to work, after going through the trouble shooter it just tells me that its not...

New Win10 Pro laptop power settings don't "take", no matter how high I set them. After just a couple minutes, the external monitor (an LG TV) and computer both go promptly to sleep, despite having the timer set to 45 minutes, or greater. Very annoying. I had a similar setup using Win7 on...

Hi, as the title says, it seems that whatever I change in my settings in the control panel, does not get saved. I noticed this when every time i open up my laptop, the notification center, you know, the little white flag at the bottom right, keeps showing an "x" mark, saying that windows...

I have a Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card, and firstly, I installed only its driver, and I noticed I had no 'sleep' option. The 'hibernate' option was present instead... Than I installed the on-board card's driver and the 'hibernate' button switched to 'sleep'. And now I have both drivers...

I'm new to Widows7 and now after 3 weeks the PC starts up in the middle of the night, the only way I can stop it is to turn off the power point. I've been looking at all sorts of things in the 3 weeks and I must have ticked the wrong box somewhere. Can anyone give me a clue where to look to fix...

I realize that the MS Wireless Mouse is not Windows hardware but I don't know where else to ask. The MS wireless mouse 5000s used in both my Win 7 and Win 8.1 systems ignore their power management setting that is supposed to prevent mouse movement from waking the systems from "sleep". The...

Running a Dell Inspiron N4110 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit i-5-2410M CPU @ 2.30 GHz 2.30 GHz So I broke my screen back in December got a replacement one and tried to fix it myself. Apparently as computer tech guy told me not only well the screen need to be replaced, so would the mobo. I had...

I would like to create a bat file that will enable Network Discovery, disable sleep or hibernation, enable autologon for the administrator, and change the desktop image... Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks, Mike

Under Power Options in the control panel, the plan settings for My Custom Plan 1 are for the display to turn off and the computer to sleep after 2 hours sitting idle...it is not working. I tried bumping it to an hour for each and it still does not work. Any ideas? Thank you for any advice...

Good day. The Acer monitor here on my home-built computer enters power save mode (the power light turns amber) exactly 20 minutes after I last touch the keyboard or mouse. When I am watching movies on my computer, it gets frustrating that I have to move the mouse every so often just so that I...

Hey all, Im having this problem. My power plan i have set for my computer to go to sleep at 30 minutes. Well it works fine, then after a few days it stops going to sleep. When I check my power plan it tells me power plan information isn't available and wont let me change it. Ok, well I tried a...

Happening on 2 machines pretty much at same time. One is Asus Notebook with a Mobile Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs of ram, other is Desktop Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs of ram. Notebook has nvidia 8600 mobile, desktop has 2 ATi Radeon X1900s. After the computers sit idle for a while, I will come back and the...

I set the Sleep settings to 15min for screen and 45min for computer. A few days later my main power button no longer worked after shutdown. Luckily my mobo has onboard Power and Reset buttons and these worked fine. I also noticed that an error popup says Windows Live messenger no longer works...