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  1. Understanding Windows 11 Power States: Shutdown, Sleep, and Hibernate Explained

    Overview of Power States When it comes to managing the power of your PC, particularly with Windows 11, understanding the differences among shutdown, sleep, and hibernate is essential for optimal energy use and system performance. Power States Explained Shut Down: The "Shut Down" option...
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    Sound pauses every time monitor goes to or wakes from sleep

    Hi, I have an issue where the sound stops whenever my monitor goes to sleep or back. For example, I'm listening to music via MediaMokey, the screen goes to sleep, and the sound stops for 1- 2 seconds, then comes back. When I move my mouse or press a key on my keyboard to wake up the monitor...
  3. Windows keeps setting to never sleep

    It feels like everyday I wake up in the morning, the computer is wide awake, I check the settings and it's set to never sleep, I set them to sleep in 20 minutes, got about my day, though when I wake up the next morning I do it all over again.
  4. Laptop won't wake from sleep, and color profile issues

    I picked up an Asus ROG G14 with the recent Best Buy sale and am loving it, but I'm having two issues. I did some searching but the solutions I found didn't work for me. I often am unable to wake the computer up from sleep. I don't even know how it's getting into sleep as I have sleep disabled...
  5. Windows 10 Windows 10 system keeps waking up from sleep

    Over the last few days (maybe a week or two?), my system has begun waking from sleep without any normal reason; e.g., no movement of the mouse, etc. It wakes up frequently like every 10-15 minutes but sometimes even after a shorter period. I've been reviewing the system event logs but have not...
  6. Windows 10 Did AMD Radeon driver update now my PC won't enter timed sleep

    I've been having problems getting PC to sleep after a period of time. With some help from this forum, it was fixed a couple of months ago. Yesterday I had to reinstall drivers for my AMD graphics card and now I am back to the no sleep problem. Anyone have any ideas Windows 10 home 64 21H1 Build...
  7. Windows 10 Windows 10 Sleep Issues on Gaming PC, Creating Custom Task To Force Sleep

    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...
  8. Windows 10 BSOD unexpected store excpetion

    Hello It gives that message always after loading up from hibernate or sleep. Please help as I really like my laptop
  9. Windows 10 Sound pauses every time monitor goes to or wakes from sleep

    Hi, I have an issue where sound stop whenever my monitor goes to sleep or back. For example, I'm listening to some stone cold heavy metal on Spotify, screen goes to sleep, sound stops for 2-3 seconds, then comes back. When I move my mouse or press a key on my keyboard to wake up the monitor...
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    Windows 7 Help! Display wakes as soon as it sleeps.

    I use MPCHC to watch TV shows and movies on my, and I have it set to turn the monitor off when it reaches the end of the playlist. Recently I installed some video editors to try, and now when MPCHC turns off the monitor, it wakes up again after a couple seconds. I uninstalled the video editing...
  11. Windows 10 My laptop shutdown when I put it to sleep

    - My laptop just shutdown and leds stay off and dont recognize anything when I put it to sleep by close lid or use hotkey. Only if I hold the power button for few second and everything work again. Beside of this, everything else is fine. Help me guys !!
  12. Windows 10 BSOD Related to "ntoskrnl.exe+22de6a" ATTEMPTED_TO_WRITE_TO_READ_ONLY_MEMORY

    Fairly new built system getting a bsod. Seems to happen alot more when waking from sleep but not always. Ran memtest for a few days and checked out fine. ran tests on the nvme drive seems fine aswell.
  13. Windows 10 Computer freezes when wake from sleep

    I just completed my first build 2 weeks ago. I recently went to the AMD site and updated the driver for my MSI Radeon RX 5700 and ever since then, when I return from Sleep, the monitor freezes with a nice background but no mouse cursor and it is frozen. I have to hit the reset button to restart...
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    Windows 10 Power options problem - after reboot/power-off always uses default

    Hi! I have longer time problem with power options. I created maximum performance profile active and modified in Control Panel and Settings and saved it, even created restore point. Computer has not to sleep or selective USB power-off or sleep, hibernate or power-off monitor etc. Always when I...
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    Windows 10 Having To Confirm SLEEP Command

    Since the new update, when I click my "Sleep" shortcut, or hit the related hotkey, I also have to confirm in a popup box that I want Rundll32 to "make changes to my device, thus totally negating the utility of having a one touch hotkey. Is there some way the avoid this second step and let the...
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    Windows 10 Display Turns Off

    Hello, I have my display and sleep settings set to "never". But after 3 minutes of inactivity, the display turns off. It's annoying and what else must I do to fix this?
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    Windows 7 Sleep is gone, and no suggested solutions work

    "Sleep" is completely gone in my shutdown menu, but none of the many "solutions" I've found all over the web actually do anything for me. The main reason none of them work is because every suggestion I've seen naively assume I've disabled it one way or another rather than it being utterly gone...
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    Windows 10 My phone is waking up to easily

    When my phone (Window 10 mobile) is asleep and I put something on the desk near it the screen wakes up. This happens so frequently it seems like I can look at it and the screen lights up. Where is the setting to reduce the sensitivity of this? Thanks
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    Windows 10 Sleep checkbox is missing from shutdown settings

    Sleep checkbox is missing from shutdown settings: and so it doesn't appear in start either: and not in power plan settings: also, not in advanced power plan settings. Help appreciated
  20. Windows 10 Weird Graphics Glitch

    Yesterday, I did 3 big things: I updated my dell inspiron 13 7000 series laptop, I updated my microsoft office suite, and I installed project 64 the popular nintendo emulator. Since last night, every time my laptop goes to sleep and I turn the screen back on, I'll get this weird pixel-y display...