Questions tagged [sleep]
Sleep mode is a low-power state designed to provide very fast resuming of a computer's operation, with minimal power consumption.
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How can I put the computer to sleep from Command Prompt/Run menu?
I know that almost everything on Windows, like opening any sort of application, can be done from the command prompt or from the Run menu.
How can I put my computer to sleep or shut it down? What is ...
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Conclusively stop wake timers from waking Windows 10 desktop
How do you stop a Windows 10 Desktop waking up from the sleeping/hibernated power state without user intervention?
For lots of users this won't be an issue but, if you sleep in the same room as your ...
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How can I stop windows re-positioning after waking from sleep?
I put my multi-monitor system to sleep when it's not in use. After I wake it up, all windows are repositioned to a different screen. The closest pattern I can think of is that the windows there were ...
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Trigger Task Scheduler in Windows 7 when computer wakes up from sleep/hibernate
I don't want task scheduler or whatever to wake the computer, but when I open the laptop back up and the machine wakes I'd like that to be the trigger that task scheduler or something uses to run an ...
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Laptop randomly waking up = Hibernate / Low Battery?
A (Windows 7) laptop has been annoying me since the day we got it. When it is put to sleep (the lid closed), it seems to intermittently wake up randomly during the night (i.e., 10pm, 1:30am, 7am, etc.)...
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How to prevent Windows 10 waking from sleep when traveling in bag?
I am not turning laptop off, but rather putting into hibernation, as it starts much faster and I can continue working without starting all apps again.
It was working long time from Windows XP to ...
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Are there specific technical considerations that would make it detrimental to put your computer in sleep mode every time?
Often I have a lot of stuff open and don't feel like shutting down my laptop, so I just use sleep mode when I'm transferring it. But I have no idea if this might have any disadvantages.
So my ...
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Prevent Windows 7 PC from sleeping while a download is in progress
While I'm downloading a large file on Windows 7 using Google Chrome, my computer goes to sleep. I could obviously set the computer to not sleep at all (or change the interval before the computer ...
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What is the difference between (these four) sleep states?
Whilst browsing the internet I found an article here about how to run a Power Efficiency Report. As I wasn't doing anything, I decided to try it and see what it did.
In the results it listed the ...
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Why does my Windows computer immediately turn back on after sleep/hibernate?
After clicking sleep or hibernate in Windows 7, my computer loads for a while and then goes into sleep mode, but not 1 second later it powers back up. The event log has no errors and no warnings ...
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Windows 10 Sleeps Before Set Time
My computer is falling asleep outside of the screen and sleep times that I have set. I have made sure that the screen saver is set to none, and that the power options and advanced settings match the ...
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Is there a command line tool to put Windows 8 to sleep? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I put the computer to sleep from Command Prompt/Run menu in Windows Vista?
A few days ago I installed Windows 8. I first found the lack of the "shutdown" menu comical, ...
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Troubleshooting a Windows 7 PC that wouldn't sleep
I have a new Windows 7 PC that wouldn't sleep (not just automatically, but also when specifically told to). The screen goes black momentarily, but within two seconds the machine comes back as if ...
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Disable power LED blinks during Vista hybrid sleep?
Does anyone know how to disable the blinking power LED when Vista enters hybrid sleep mode? My case has a very bright blue LED that is rather distracting. I'd rather not disable hybrid sleep, as it ...
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How do I stop Windows 10 going to sleep after locking with Win+L key
I've got a Dell XPS 13 (9360) with Windows 10 Home.
Steps to reproduce:
Open power options (Win-X, O)
Click change plan settings next to the current plan ("Dell" in my case)
Set both "on battery" ...
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Why won't my computer go to sleep automatically?
Windows 8 is set to sleep after 30 mins, and it used to work, but recently it's started refusing to sleep. (I can still manually ask it to go to sleep without any issue.)
I was having issues a while ...
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What is Hybrid Sleep in Windows 7?
Is Hybrid Sleep on Windows 7 the same as on Windows Vista?
As I understand it so far, it is like sleep, except the content of the RAM is also saved onto the hard drive, so when there is ...
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Why does my computer keep switching on?
My computer seems to randomly turn itself on, usually in the middle of the night when I'm asleep. It's in my bedroom so it wakes me up. I'm running Windows 7 and I don't know if it's trying to runs ...
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Can I create/save a hibernation state to recover from *without* actually hibernating?
I'd like to be able to have my computer resume to it's last state (open programs etc) in the event of a forced or unintended power-off without having to actually hibernate or hybrid-sleep my machine.
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Is it still necessary to shut down computers?
Nowadays with our modern operating systems, is it necessary to fully shutdown computers instead of choosing to stand-by or hibernate computers (desktops and laptops)?
Would there be any side-effects ...
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Is the CPU active in Sleep mode?
Suppose on a Windows OS, you toggle the computer to go into sleep mode and put it away. As far as I know there will no programs or processes will be running.
But would the processor still be running ...
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How to execute a script on sleep, hibernate, resume, and shutdown
I keep alot of my classwork documents hosted on dropbox as well as my personal site for remote storage. This helps alot since I switch between an iPad, laptop and desktop, so there are no worries ...
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Task Scheduler won't wake the computer
I want my computer to start uTorrent at 4 o'clock in the morning, when I'm asleep. But the computer is a bit noisy so I put it to sleep mode every time I go to bed.
I've tried creating a task in Task ...
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Display all power related events (turn-on/-off/sleep/hibernate/...)?
Imagine your computer is doing strange things regarding turning on, off, sleeping, hibernating, restart, being on in the morning when you set it to sleep in the evening before and similar things.
I ...
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How do I prevent Windows 7 laptop from waking up automatically?
About once or twice a week my laptop will wake up in the early hours of the morning (about 6ish) from sleep mode. This happens whether the AC power is connected or not. It will then turn itself off ...
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Wake timers don't wake computer from sleep mode
I'm got a custom built PC running 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. So far everything works great except for one thing: it will not wake up from sleep mode for a wake timer or scheduled task.
Sleep mode ...
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Is it safe to carry laptop around in sleep mode?
I heard that a hard disk in a laptop is more susceptible to damage if it is turned on. A person damaged their laptop's hard drive by having their laptop on while it was in their backpack.
I also ...
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Windows 10 Desktop PC will not go to sleep automatically based on set idle timer no matter what I try. What else can I try?
I have a Windows 10 Desktop PC I built recently with all new parts, Windows is fully updated, as are all drivers, BIOS, etc. I had a problem with my PC waking up from sleep randomly at night, and then ...
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Disable UpdateOrchestrator Reboot task
About a week ago my Windows 10 Pro started waking up in a middle of the night. I've had similar problems about half a year ago, but managed to configure the cause - unruly UpdateOrchestration task and ...
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How not to lose Wifi after waking up from standby or sleep mode?
After 30 minutes my Windows 7 PC goes to Standby. Problem is, when I get it back to normal, Wi-Fi is disconnected. And it doesn't just reconnect and come back in 10 seconds. For example, when I start ...
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Windows 10 gets shutdown instead of going to sleep/hibernate
It's a long time problem - Windows 10 is shutting down instead of going to sleep or hibernate.
All the power settings are set to sleep/hibernate/nothing for power button/closing lid/idle etc. And ...
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Legacy Kernel Caller preventing sleep mode
I have a problem with Windows 7 not sleeping.
PowerCfg -requests
says a "Legacy Kernel Caller" driver prevents the sleep mode.
This is not very helpful or informative.
How do I get more details ...
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Help me find the offending process waking my Windows 7 PC from hibernate every night
Recently my Windows 7 64-bit PC has started waking every night from hibernation around 3:30am. I have done the following to try and figure out what is causing the issue with no luck:
Examined the ...
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What does Windows 10 write to my drive before going to sleep?
I noticed that my Windows 10 laptop takes around 6 seconds to go to sleep, and during these six seconds the SSD's activity LED is on. I imagine that Windows is writing something on the SSD before ...
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How to activate sleep states after Windows 10 install
I have just bought a new PC from a PC Builder, but they disabled all the power savings settings in the BIOS, and I think that affected the ability to use any of the sleep states because that was the ...
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Disable or sleep secondary hard drive in Macbook
I've done some quick Googling but didn't find an answer. I've put an SSD in my MacBook, and at the same time moved the original hard drive to the optical drive bay. I'm running the OS and most of my ...
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What is the impact of leaving a laptop in "sleep" mode (while on battery power)? [closed]
How much battery would leaving my laptop at "sleep" mode consume? is the consumption low enough so that it would be safe to leave the laptop sleeping at nights regularily and using it tommorow?
What'...
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Can I tell Windows 10 - 'If I close the lid on my laptop, go to sleep IF I don't have an external monitor attached'?
I am aware of the following SuperUser questions:
Prevent laptop from going to sleep when I close the lid, but only if I'm connected to an external display
automate so that if and only if external ...
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How do I find out which one of those pesky programs keeps waking my machine from sleep?
Every night I put my Windows 7 machine into sleep mode, and every morning I wake up and the thing is running.
How I can find out which process is waking the thing up?
I've already looked at the ...
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Scheduling a task before sleep in Windows 7 and hold off the sleep event until task runs
Note that this is different than the other questions I found (I did search), like: Is there any way to execute something when closing the laptop's lid?
I used the same trick of scheduling a task ...
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Hibernating laptop randomly wakes up and stays on when lid is closed
I have a fairly new Windows 10 laptop: it's about six months old and still under warranty. Not long after obtaining the machine it developed an annoying fault: every so often, when the lid is closed ...
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Why is Windows7 waking up after I put it to sleep?
Just about every night I put my Windows 7 computer to sleep, and then I turn off the power to my bluetooth keyboard. Almost always, the next morning my computer has woken up, keyboard still off.
I'm ...
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System freezes immediately on suspending, where do I investigate?
I've just tried to suspend to RAM (i.e. sleep) my newly installed Xubuntu 19.10 machine, a Lenovo S340 Ideapad with a replaced SSD. Upon pressing suspend while logged in, the system freezes instantly. ...
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How do I make a batch file wait / sleep for some seconds?
I use a batch file to start up a few of the programs I need running in the background. Up until now, I had used the pause command to execute it after some of the other start-ups finished. I would ...
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Turn on Windows 10 laptop without opening it if external monitor is attached?
I work most of the time with my Windows 10 laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon, 2012 1. gen model) closed and an external monitor attached.
To achieve this I have to start the computer by
opening the lid,
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Windows 10 Lock Screen always puts monitor to sleep after 60 seconds
I use Windows 10 at work, and for security reasons, I always lock my workstation when I leave the room for any reason. The problem is that my monitor is a Samsung 4K TV and the lock screen puts it to ...
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What is the hotkey to put my Windows to sleep?
My keyboard doesn't have power-related keys. I would like to enter the hybrid sleep using the keyboard and only with a minimum of keystrokes.
If there is none, how do I bind a hotkey to it?
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windows 10 desktop - does sleep mode use a lot of energy?
I recently bought a desktop PC - it's the first I've bought for possibly 10 years and it's got Windows 10 installed.
I notice that these days, there is no option to Hibernate anymore, just shutdown ...
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Why does my Windows 7 computer freeze after waking up from Sleep?
Moderator edit: if you have a similar problem, please ask your own question, since it seems there are several things that can cause this situation, it is better to treat each case separately.
Hey ...
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Why is my laptop favoring the wireless connection over my LAN connection?
When my laptop comes out of sleep, I have to typically wait about 90-120 seconds before my network (wireless or NIC card) 'wakes up'.
During that time, I see my wireless connection with 'limited ...