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Questions relating to the transition of a computer from a sleeping or hibernated state to a normal operating state.

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Monitor doesn't wake up after sleep when connected via DP to a closed-lid MacBook Pro

I normally use my MacBook Pro with the lid closed and connected to a external monitor via Thunderbolt (mini-DisplayPort) to DisplayPort cable. The issue I have is that when the Mac is asleep, and I ...
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Disable mouse movment wakeup but there is no power management tab in device manager for the HID compliant mouse

I am able to wakeup my sleeping computer by moving the mouse. How do I disable that? (I am not going to turn the mouse off manually every time I sleep the computer or disconnect it or try to have it ...
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Reboot Windows 10 gracefully while screen is locked (REISUB for Windows 10)

I have a Windows 10 laptop. When I am at home, it's connected to and external monitor via HDMI. Today I needed the laptop with me in the city, so first I disconnected all the cables, and then I sent ...
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My computer wakes itself after approx. 45 sec

I have search this forum for answers and tried to solve by solutions suggested in diffrent answers but problem still remains. I am running a windows 10 64 bit system. My computer wakes up after just ...
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Black screen when macbook returns from sleep

I have a macbookpro unibody late 2008 15p and use OS X Lion, 10.7.3. I use always an external monitor and close the lid. When I finish my work day I put the macbook in sleep mode and it switches off. ...
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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 from sleep with external Keyboard or mouse after these have been unplugged and replugged on Windows 10

I am working with two computers, an Asus laptop with Windows 10 and a Dell Optiflex Desktop PC with Ubuntu 20.04. The Asus laptop is also used as if it was a a desktop computer, i.e. the lid is always ...
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How to completely bypass Windows 10 login prompt after sleep without password set?

When you put your Windows 10 machine to sleep, and then hit a key to bring it back up in a while, it shows you the picture, when you get rid of that, it asks you to hit the login button - even when ...
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Sleep mode closing all my apps,when waking up the machine

I noticed yesterday , that when I resume from the sleep state, all my opened apps are gone. They don't stay in the RAM, so when the machine wakes up, I have to reopen everything AGAIN. When I wake up ...
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Computer waking up from sleep in frequent intervals, no solution found yet

I have an Asus laptop (Q501LA) with Windows 8.1 installed (upgraded from Windows 8). Throughout the day when the laptop is on, it wakes up by itself from sleep. This problem has occurred both in ...
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Stop laptop from resuming from sleep by opening the lid

I'm using a Dell Inspiron N411z. When I open the lid, the laptop automatically resumes from sleep. I don't want this behaviour. I want to manually press the power button to wake it up. Is there a way ...
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Terminal Command to Check if Mac Book Pro Lids Closed

I'm running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). I was wondering if there was a terminal command to check if the macbook pro's lid is currently closed. The reason I ask is because I have cron jobs scheduled ...
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Windows 10 screen timeout is set. Something turn on the screen after it has been switched off by timer settings

My screen timeout settings is set to 5 minutes for both options (On battery + When plugged in). My sleep settings is set to 15 minutes from battery and never when plugged in. Blank screen saver is set ...
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ASUS computer win11: enable start machine on lid open

In many of today's PCs, the computer will automatically start from a shutdown state when the lid is opened. This is just like a chromebook or Lenovo's Flip to Start feature. My ASUS computer had this ...
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Device waking device when disabled from doing so?

I don't want USB devices to wake my PC, and my USB controller is disabled from waking my PC. However, it wakes it anyway. I tried disabling it using powercfg /DEVICEDISABLEWAKE, but it says You do ...
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Trigger Task Scheduler in Windows 10 when display wakes up

I don't have enough rep to comment on this post so I am posting my own question that is very similar to that post. I have an app I want to run when the computer goes idle, and then quit when I wake ...
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Turn on computer with USB keyboard through PS/2 adapter

I want to wake-up my PC by USB keyboard connected through PS/2 adapter. According to BIOS settings: Resume From S3/S4/S5 by PS/2 keyboard ... [Any Key] it should be working, but doesn't. If I ...
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Can I wake the Windows 10 screensaver using the shift key?

Admittedly, this is a pretty trivial problem... I'm in the habit of using the shift key to wake up a sleeping computer (either in suspend or just in screensaving mode). I do this because it is a key ...
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Why is TeamViewer setting up a wake timer in the middle of the night and how to disable it?

After upgrading to Windows 10, my PC started waking up at the middle of the night. I have run all the routine checks and made sure that no hardware has the option enabled. However, upon running ...
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Script to put Windows 8 to sleep and wake up in 5 seconds

How can I put Windows 8 to sleep(standby) and then wake up in 5 seconds? I know I can use psshutdown -d to sleep, but then how can it wake up on a timer?
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Stop mouse from waking Windows PC

I know others have asked this exact question, but I have read the answers on those posts, and not found anything which solves the problem for me. My laptop will wake from sleep when the mouse is moved....
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How to identify Bluetooth adapters support WakeUp Windows PC from sleep on a keyboard or mouse action?

Even in Windows XP you could find a message in the log, like "this BT adapter does not support storing keys and wake up is not possible". Okay, so knowing that, what kind/model/brand of ...
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Can't wake up Windows 10 from sleep with one single key press on a USB keyboard; needs to press multiple times

Problem details: I can wake up my Windows 10 desktop computer from sleep with my USB keyboard/Logitech wireless mouse, but the only issue is that with the keyboard, sometimes I am not able to wake up ...
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Windows 10 Freezing on Waking from Sleep: KB4560960?

I recently started struggling again with my desktop system (Win10 64 bit, latest patches and updates, no insider ring stuff) freezing when attempting to wake from sleep. Sometimes, but not always, it ...
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StartMenuExperienceHost.exe keeps waking my computer

Did anybody find a solution for this? I have tried all posted answers to similar topics and could stop most of the issues that were causing windows to return from hibernation except this last one. I'm ...
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Using 2 Logitech unifying receivers lists 2 keyboards and mice in device manager

I am using 2 Logitech unifying receivers, one for the Logitech wireless keyboard and one for the Logitech wireless mouse. And I get the following duplicate devices in the device manager: And the only ...
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windows wakeup, run script and go back to sleep

MacOS has a program called pmset which can start from hibernation and power off again. # pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 20:19:00 shutdown MTWRFSU 20:25:00 # pmset -g sched Repeating power events:...
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Computer wakes via mouse but not keyboard

I have a Windows 10 computer (Asrock x370 Professional Gaming motherboard) and I have enabled in UEFI the ACPI setting which says it would allow wake from USB. I have also checked the Windows power ...
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W10 disable welcome screen, but keep lock screen?

Is this possible via a regedit or something? To reiterate: the welcome screen is the one where you select a user account and type in your password (if you've set one), and the lock screen is the one ...
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Win 10: Monitor won't stay asleep for long

I have 2 Windows 10 units: Dell XPS 8900 with Dell 24" Monitor. Win 10 Home Dell Latitude 7490. Win 10 Pro LTS Units both are set to have monitors sleep after 10mins. Both will do that, but both ...
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Win10 workstation randomly wakes up

I usually leave my workstation PC in sleep mode instead of shutting it down. While often everything works as intended, sometimes the machine boots up without input (no wake on LAN, no key press). I ...
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How to get historical graph of processes activity in Process Exprlorer - Windows Sysinternals

I have strange behaviour of laptop during night with no human around. Sometimes fan gets high RPMs and it looks like computer is processing something. It happed also that Laptop waked up by itself few ...
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Is it possible to prevent Windows to reset many system settings to default after a major update (Fall Creators Update)?

I recently installed the Windows 10 Creators Update on many of my PCs, and as with previous "major" update releases, I noticed that many of the system settings, including things like: Energy options ...
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Wakeup from suspend with bluetooth mouse

I was using my usb mouse to wake up my Windows machine from suspend, but now I have a bluetooth mouse and the power management options doesn't appear for 'Targus Soft-Touch Bluetooth Mouse' in device ...
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Only the fan spins when waking up Windows 10 from sleep

I have these "retired" computers from an office. I upgrade them to Windows 10 and install a graphics card. All computers have the same mainboard and peripherals. I never had any problem to recondition ...
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Make Windows 10 ignore the first keyboard input on wake-up?

My laptop is set to turn off the screen after a very short duration of inactivity to save battery. On a touchscreen laptop you could just tap the screen to wake the laptop up. My laptop doesn't have ...
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PC wakes itself immediately after being turned off or put to sleep

My Windows 8.1 computer wakes up immediately after being put to sleep (either of the sleep options in the start menu.) So I spent some time trying to understand the problem, read multiple posts here ...
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How to enable wake up on Ctrl+Alt+Del only on Windows 7?

How to enable wake up on Ctrl+Alt+Del only on Windows 7? For the longest time it worked like that for me, but after I reinstalled the system, the PC started waking up from sleep mode on just touching ...
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Wake tablet-pc from sleep by start button

I have a lenovo yoga2 tablet that runs with windows 8.1. The power button of my tablet is not working and I want to wake my tablet from sleep by pressing the start button. Is there any way to do ...
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Windows 10 - Windows won't wake from Sleep S3 if connected through HDMI to the TV

I have a new PC with Windows 10 which I would like to be connected with HDMI to the TV. But if so, the screen does not wakeup after Sleep, I have to turn the PC off with the Power button and turn it ...
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Device reenabling ability to wake PC from sleep on its own

I have problem. Some of my devices like wireless mouse and keyboard re enable option: "Allow this device to wake the computer" in Device Manager. I run command: powercfg -devicequery wake_armed to ...
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Windows Updates restore wake-armed state of mouse, keyboard and NIC, why?

I notice that every now and then, especially when Windows updates were installed, my mouse, keyboard and NIC regain the ability to wake up the computer. This happend the last time when the "big" ...
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Windows 10 wake up from sleep is very slow

I just recently did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro. OS runs smoothly, boot time is not so bad (under 30s), but wake-up time is IMO terribly slow, at least compared to Windows 7, where I could work ...
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PC keeps waking up from hybrid standby

If I put my PC into hybrid standby, every ~ 15 minutes it wakes itself up, mostly just showing a black screen and going to standby a few seconds later, all by itslef. I already looked into the ...
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windows 8.1 opening random websites, apps

i just got a new asus q551l. it has windows 8.1 on it. every time i put it to sleep it and i go back to check on it, it is already awake with some random websites open, or random apps. i do not ...
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Computer (win 8.1) starts by itself

My windows 8.1 desktop has suddenly decided to start itself during the night. It has not done that before and I suspect the behaviour might be new since new year. 1st of january 2015, it started 0615 ...
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Screen does not wake to mouse and keyboard, but wakes via Teamviewer connection from another device

For the past week, I've been having trouble waking my screen. When I move my mouse it usually wakes the screen, but now it simply turns on the monitor but displays nothing. Same goes with all my ...
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How to hibernate Windows on Power Loss and Wake When Power is Restored?

I'm running a Windows 8 tablet in my car as my stereo and have it powered to the ignition (so it only charges on ACC). I'm using EventGhost for automation processes and I'd like to be able to have ...
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wake laptop over hdmi from tv?

I have XBMC setup on my laptop, which is connected to my tv via an HDMI cable. On the laptop I am running ubuntu 13.10. Would it be possible to have my laptop sleep and wake depending on whether the ...
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PC can't recover from "Turn off display after 5 mins"

My power settings is set to turn off display after 5mins. Occasionally my PC can't seem to wake up from this. The monitor is just black with its led indicator blinking. The keyboard and mouse's lights ...
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