Questions tagged [wake-up]
Questions relating to the transition of a computer from a sleeping or hibernated state to a normal operating state.
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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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How do I prevent the Windows 10 "Maintenance Activator" from waking my PC randomly (even after disabling wake timers)?
Windows 10 wakes randomly after putting it to sleep.
I have tried all proposed solutions from this old question: I have added a disable flag for the automatic maintenance in the registry, disabled ...
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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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Computer not wake up sometime after standby
I have a crazy problem with my new pc.
The computer worked fine until power on but the problem is that when I put my computer to sleep (or sometime shutdown) after several minutes computer dies and I ...
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PC keeps powering on automatically (Windows 10)
I have a nasty issue which prevents me from powering off my computer. I can shutdown my PC but after a second or two it powers up again and starts booting... I've looked into the issue and tried the ...
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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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Wake on LAN Port Forwarding not Working
I am trying to configure the server I run from my home with Wake on LAN so that it is not necessary for me to keep it running when I do not need it. I have been able to get it to work on when the ...
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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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Windows 10 tablet wakes up on touchpad or keyboard input
I am pretty sure I've digged through most of the available threads regarding this issue, and yet none provided a working solution.
I have ticked off the "Allow device to wake PC from sleep" option in ...
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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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Windows 10 Desktop PC will not wake up at all
Yesterday my Dell Desktop PC with Windows 10 64-bit was refusing to wake from its sleep state. I finally got it to come on by not only powering it off, but unplugging it and waiting a few seconds. ...
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How to tell what wake source is when Wake Source: Unknown
Same problem as so many people: My computer wakes itself, but I can't determine the source. Windows 10. It's happened around 3:40am, 12:21am, etc. Seems to happen every few weeks.
These are some ...
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Bios - wake by alarm -- what happens if computer is already on?
There are time I need to remote into my desktop for a couple weeks at time. The problem is, there is some strange error going on where the computer (which I have set to never hibernate, ever) --- will ...
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Windows 10 wakes up at night although Update was completely finished a day before
I really really hate when my computer wakes up at 4:00h in the morning. So when I get Updates for my Win10 x64, I always schedule an immediate reboot, so that the update process can finish. That's ...
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How to prevent some program to wake up my PC?
My PC gone sleep and then wake up in about few minutes. After checked with powercfg -lastwake I found this.
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
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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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How can I wake-up a PC using a command? (i.e. equivalent to moving a mouse, etc)
It doesn't seem like this would be very difficult, but how can I wake-up a PC by doing the equivalent of moving a mouse or pressing keys on a keyboard?
My PC is running Windows 10 and I only have the ...
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Why my computer wakes up from the network card?
I've noticed my computer receiving a wake signal from my network. I am on a LAN with only few devices connected on it: printer, smart phones, nas, router + few other computers...
I checked the ...
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How to boot Ubuntu from BIOS wakeup and otherwise boot Windows
I have a dual boot system. My Ubuntu partition needs to boot automatically on BIOS scheduled wakeup (and wakeonlan if possible) Otherwise I want to boot into Windows by default. (power button)
How ...
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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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How can I disable Windows from waking up from everything but the keyboard and the power button?
How can I disable Windows from waking up from everything but the keyboard and the power button? That is, I don't want my windows to wake up from the mouse at least.
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How can I use a .bat file to make the computer sleep again whenever it wakes up unexpectedly?
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
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Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0
(No Wake Source is shown)
If I press a key to wake my ...
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Can't wake up Windows 10 machine with task scheduler
I have successfully set up sleep and wake up tasks for Windows 7 that have functioned correctly for more than a month. After a upgrade to Windows 10 the wake up task has ceased working.
I have tried ...
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Why is Windows 10 randomly resuming from hibernate? [duplicate]
I recently upgraded by Windows 7 Home Premium machine to Windows 10 Home. The upgrade went fine and the machine's been running alright, except for one thing: I hibernate it every night when I'm done ...
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Windows 7 see cause of previous wake
Sometimes my machine wakes up by itself. I read about powercfg -lastwake, but this only shows the cause of the latest wake event.
Is there a way to look at a history of wake events and see their ...
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Windows 10 keeps waking from sleep
My computer has been waking out of sleep since I've upgraded to windows 10. It usually sleeps for many hours before waking. This is a desktop PC.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg lastwake
Wake History ...
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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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Reset motherboard after sleep
I have a problem with my computer.
I put my computer in sleep mode. When I want woke up my computer, the screen turn on and stay black. After that I need to power off the computer with shutting the ...
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Laptop won't wake from sleep when external Keyboard and Mouse are plugged in via USB Hub. How to fix?
We have an ASUS Zenbook UX305FA laptop running Windows 10 that is able to be woken from sleep with an external Keyboard and Mouse when they are plugged-in directly into their individual USB ports.
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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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Windows waking from Sleep/Hibernation after 15-25 minutes [duplicate]
My machine is waking every 15-25 minutes after they are put into sleep/hibernation (issue persists with both). I'm running Windows 10 right now, but the issue was already present in Windows 8.1 (and ...
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How do wake timers work?
Windows most commonly places a computer in S3 (standby/save-to-RAM) mode, where power is cut from the CPU but not to RAM.
If power is cut to the CPU, then how are wake timers triggered? Which ...
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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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Why does Windows 8.1 sometimes wake briefly during hibernation?
When I hibernate Windows 8.1, sometimes it wakes briefly some hours later. (This is a pain, as it may be the middle of the night and my computer's bright blue power LED lights up the room and wakes me ...
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Does the Atheros AR956X WLAN adapter support WoWLAN (Wake on Wireless LAN)?
Some friends want to be able to access files on their WiFi network, even when one of their computers is asleep.
To accomplish this, they probably need WoWLAN (Wake on Wireless LAN) working.
Does ...
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Set Windows to prompt for password when opening lid, but not go to sleep
I often plug my computer to my tv and close the lid, so I set 'Do nothing' when closing lid in the power options. However, I often close the lid when I walk away from my laptop in public places like ...
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How to wake a linux server when the temperature drops to certain value?
I've been tasked with a weird problem, sending a server into sleep mode when a certain core temperature is reached, and then waking it when it cools back down to a different temperature.
I can handle ...
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Automatically Wake PC at certain time without wake-on-lan
I feel like this shouldn't be too difficult. I want my PC to turn on at 7:00 AM every morning. I have a Toshiba satellite L50-B-1LN running windows 8. It uses UEFI instead of a normal BIOS. In there ...
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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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Prevent Notebook from resuming from Standby while on Battery
A recurring problem I see with notebooks is having them resume from standby or hibernation while on battery.
This can be caused by a wide range of possible reasons, ranging from network activity over ...
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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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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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Mouse can't Wake Up from sleep my Windows 7 Computer,but keyboard can,Allow this device to wake the computer is checked
I have DFI DK P45 T2RS Plus motherboard and BTC9051H keyboard and Logitech G9x Laser Mouse Call of Duty: MW3 Mouse,use clover(like grub) to boot windows 7 so I don't use hybrid sleep,only pure sleep,...
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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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windows 7 cannot shutdown after wake up from sleep S3
I have a clean install Windows 7 SP1 x64,BIOS is Load Optimized Defaults,only change SATA IDE to AHCI.when I sleep and wake up,then I shutdown,Windows 7 stuck at shut down,but doesn't turn off monitor ...
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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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waking up a sleeping external usb storage drive on linux?
So I got a Seagate external usb storage that goes to sleep after 90 minutes. All its power comes from the usb.
At dmesg, this is what happens:
[Dom Jun 29 17:25:08 2014] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi ...
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Windows 8.1 will not go back to sleep after waking up
I have problems putting Windows to sleep and starting the screen saver on my new Windows 8.1 machine.
Sleep mode and screen savers work only when the computer is first powered up (or restarted). But ...
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