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My laptop seems to be stuck in a low power mode
My asus vivobook was asleep. I tried to wake it up but before anything appeared on the screen I changed my mind and started to hard shut it off. While I was holding the power button I noticed the ...
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loginctl-hooks + slock not working as expected
I have openrc init system and I want to lock my loginctl session with slock on running loginctl suspend.
I am using the loginctl hooks for the purpose.
loginctl man page :
Hook directories
[/usr]/lib[...
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Windows 11 Forced sleep mode?
I had problems with sleep mode/fan noise and found the only thing that worked was the answer here https://superuser.com/a/1697199/1890608
however it seems that this is actually for hibernate mode and ...
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Laptop sometimes keeps running when I close the lid and has black screen until I force shut it down and power it up again
I have a new MSI Katana GF66 12UCO running Windows 10 Home. When I close the lid, I have set that the laptop should hibernate (as opposed to sleep, because when attempting to sleep, the laptop never ...
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PC goes to sleep instead of hibernation
This is my first question in this forum, so please excuse me if I missed anything.
Problem Statement:
Selecting Hibernate option from the shutdown options, the PC will go to Sleep instead of ...
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How to prevent Computer going into sleep mode after Youtube's "Are you still watching?" is on screen for a while
Just like the question says, I have been experiencing issues watching YouTube through Chrome browser. Basically after a while Youtube/Chrome will put the pc to sleep without warning. Just to clarify, ...
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Why my Windows 11 PC hibernates despite of these settings?
Here are the power settings of my Intel N100 mini-PC running Windows 11 Pro:
The PC hibernates after a few hours. Is there any other setting I missed to prevent it from hibernating?
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Desktop keeps hibernating, despite all sleep settings being disabled
My desktop machine is a fairly simple build with a Gigabyte motherboard, a pair of NVME drives, a DVD R/W drive, and 64GB RAM. Running Windows 10 and connected to a TrippLite UPS.
I typically power ...
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Why won't my PC sleep or hibernate from a timer?
I previously had issues with my Windows 10 PC sleeping and instantly waking up due to LAN, which I fixed. The computer will sleep and hibernate fine when told directly, and doesn't wake itself up.
Now ...
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How can I read values set with powercfg /setdcvalueindex?
The behavior of Windows Modern Standby's adaptive hibernate ostensibly depends on the following values:
Budget setting
Definition
Exposed as
Powercfg command
StandbyBudgetPercent
Defines the battery ...
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Should Windows 10 Pro have a GUI option for "Allow wake timers" under Sleep in a power plan's "Advanced settings"?
There are many examples of Windows 10 instructions that assume that the Sleep setting within the "Advanced settings" for a power plan will have an entry called "Allow wake timers". ...
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Windows 10 PC can Hibernate and Restart, but not Shutdown or Sleep
I have a PC (Intel i5-6500 CPU in a Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI motherboard) that was running Windows 7 fine for 5+ years, but after a clean install of Windows 10 has seemingly endless shutdown/sleep ...
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How to enable hibernation after certain sleep duration automatically in Windows 11?
I had an old hp laptop that used to go to hibernate after certain hours of sleep duration. So for eg., if I sleep my laptop manually it would automatically goes to hibernate after a certain hour or 1.
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rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0 does nothing
Originally, my question began a little differently:
When I am using BigBox (Launchbox), I choose the "Sleep" option, and it kept putting my laptop to hibernate. I could not wake the machine ...
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Sleep mode issue
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop with Windows 10. I originally set up the laptop to go into sleep mode when lid is closed. I did not shut down the laptop in more than a year. Recently I opened the ...
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