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Windows 7 wakes immediately from sleep - no wake history
I have 64-bit Windows 7 Pro installed on a OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. The machine automatically wakes straight up from sleep, whether it happens when after the timeout set in power settings for sleep, or when ...
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My Windows 7 PC wakes up randomly and powercfg lastwake shows nothing. What to do? [duplicate]
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Laptop randomly waking up = Hibernate / Low Battery?
My PC wakes up from sleep randomly.
I disabled Hibernation after Sleep.
I am using Asus N53SV with Windows 7 64 ...
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DELL laptop takes for ever to change to “sleep” mode and when wakes up doesn't recognize the wireless keyboard and mouse
I used to have a problem when I try to make my laptop go to "sleep" mode.
it took few min to complete the task. another issue was that when I connected the Laptop to the Docking station and wake up ...
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Stop programs from starting with Windows when it wakes up from sleep
I know that MSConfig is used to check and prevent programs from starting up (from boot), as explained in the answers to this question, but I want to know how to check the programs that open when my ...
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Win7 becomes unstable after waking from sleep and trying to access esata drive
I have the following problem:
I have a HTPC at home which is only used for its Mediacenter but since recently has an esata storage enclosure to record all its data to. The esata enclosure has a ...
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How To Wake Up Laptop Without Switching On The Screen?
I have setup a schedule for disk defragmenter but in Task Scheduler i cannot see the option for a laptop waking up and not switching screen. Since my laptop has always its lid closed, i don't want the ...
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Windows 7 stopped waking up from sleep all of a sudden
I have been using Windows 7 64 bit for a few months now.
My niece has been visiting and playing on the computer. Yesterday, when i pressed my keyboard button, it did not wake up from sleep. It ...
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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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HP laptop (Windows 7 x64) turns itself on @11:30am every day
My HP laptop wakes up from sleep every day at 11:30am by itself. No tasks scheduled for that time (either user or Windows tasks).
No AV scans or updates scheduled for that time. Auto-defrag & ...
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Prevent laptop with external monitor from reverting to built-in screen after waking from sleep
I have a new HP Mini Note running Windows 7 Starter. It mostly stays on the desktop with an external widescreen and whenever I'm not using it I close the lid, thus putting it to sleep.
Now more often ...
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Wake Mac mini running Windows 7 using Apple remote
I have just installed Windows 7 Pro 32 bit to a 2010 Mac mini (using Bootcamp). I also have the current (2nd gen) Apple Remote.
How can I wake the machine from sleep under Windows 7 with the remote? ...
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Windows 7 wake from sleep problem
For the past few days on I've been experiencing an odd problem on my main Windows 7 (64 bit) box in that the machine doesn't reliably wake from sleep. (Specifically, the hard drives/fans, etc. sound ...
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How can Windows 7 be set to sleep at 8pm and wake at 8am every day?
I'm trying to figure out how to get Windows 7 to sleep at 8pm and wake at 8am on a daily basis. I'm looking at Windows' services and there is a Shutdown.exe that can run, but it only seems to have a ...
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Monitor not “waking up” Not sure if harware or settings
Running Win 7. After manually puttinng computer to sleep, oftentimes when I move the mouse to wake up, the screen remains black and I can't hear computer ramping up. Does not happen all of the time. ...
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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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Can't disable wake-on-mouse
I have Windows 7 installed on Asus M4A785-T MBO.
In BIOS, power settings are set to S3 (ACPI), and there is no S4 option.
Wake on (lan, keyboard, mouse, etc.) - all of these are disabled in BIOS.
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progress bar for Hibernation in Windows Seven
On XP, during hibernation a progress bar shows me how long I have to wait for completing the operation.
On Seven, I see no progress bar and the monitor turn off at once while the OS saves the ram on ...
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Banning certain programs from using wake from sleep
Is it possible to ban a particular program from waking up the computer from sleep on Windows 7. The media center update is becoming really irritating turning my computer on all the time.
