wake up

I'm running Windows 11 22h2 on a Dell XPS 8950 desktop. My power settings specify Never sleep and never turn off screen. I run a screen saver app. I shut down my computer every night and power up (so boot) the next day. Many days I'm at my computer most of the day, or at least on-and-off. Some...

Ok, so i have my laptop setup to "do nothing" when lid is closed. I have it this way so i can use a monitor and have the laptop in a stand behimd the monitor due to very limited space. I am runnimg win10. I have a wireless mouse and keyboard hooked up. I went to device manager to ensure that...

I have a w10 laptop. I used the window key, power, sleep and now it won't wake up. I've never used it before. Is there a special way to wake the pc up? I've tried all I can think of. Any help would be great. Thank you, R

Hi, today i put my computer on sleepmode and then left home. When i came back some hours later, the computer was running and the monitor showed me the loggin-window. It looks like something woke my computer up. As I foudn out, windows 7 regular uses usb-devices like mouse and keyboard to wake...

Hi. I'm trying to wake my win 7 pc from sleep (not from hibernation) using task scheduler but I'm having some problems. The pc does not wake up. I have set a task that has an action to starts cmd.exe and argument is "/c "exit"". Windows runs as a shell and apparently running windows as a shell...

After a time in Hibernate mode, my computer "wake up" automatically. Someone know what are causing this? Microsoft said it would be outdated drivers. But it is not. My drivers are all installed and updated. I've been in the "Device Manager" to see which devices could be making the computer to...

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Hi I thought that my sound issue had gone away. But I stopped computing for a while and had lunch. When I came back, my computer had gone to sleep and when I woke it up, no sound. I started thinking about it and it may be that this is what has been happening in the past. I often go away from...

I have recently (about 4 weeks ago) purchased an Asus R510J, a laptop with pre-installed Windows 8.1. It was running rather smoothly apart from some painful differences I notice coming from Windows 7. The one issue I started to notice however, was that when waking it up in the morning it would...

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...

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

I changed a new CPU yesterday and reset bios settings. now I notice I cannot wake windows 7 from hibernate by keyboard stroke, must hit power button.how to solve this issue?

Using Task Scheduler, is there any way to define a task that will run each time the computer wakes up from sleep? Or is there some other way to do that? I have a batch file that needs to be run each time the computer awakens from sleep. But I don't see an option for that under Triggers.

Hi Folks, I wonder if you can help? I recently have setup my custom build machine (SPEC HERE: Image 2012-03-19 at 9.51.01 AM.png - Using 1TB HDs in RAID0 and have a 1TB IDE attached too.) and I'm having an issue with it as it BSODs on wakeup from sleep. Event Manager shows this: - System...

Hello to everyone! :D I am writing in the hope of finding a solution to a serious problem I'm experiencing, certainly not tied to a software problem but one that I hope we can find a work around by software. My laptop (an HP DV3-2350EL i3 330m cpu and ATI Radeon HD4550 discrete graphics) has...

Hey there, Recently I've been having problems after waking my laptop up from sleep -- I think it tries to shut down instead, because upon waking up it sometimes gives me the "Waiting for programs to close" screen, which I can then press cancel and continue using it normally. This causes a...

I'm trying to create a scheduled task that will wake my computer weekly to run a Security Essentials full scan. Apparently, the MSE scheduler does not wake the computer for scans but DOES put the computer to sleep during a scan if the sleep timer is set for less time than the scan requires (mine...

I have a desktop connected to a modem/router and a laptop connected wireless. I cannot print from my laptop unless I go to my desktop and "wake" it up! Does anyone know how to fix this or "Wake Up" my desktop remote Windows 7 printer sharing states this is true. Is this just stupid...

I would like to hear a sound when my pc go to hibernate/sleep and when wake up, just like when Windows shutting down or start. It is posible? Please help!