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Task Scheduler Windows 11 not waking the computer
I know that variations of this have been asked previously and I have read most of the responses to older threads. However I am using a newer OS and those older threads have helped me get this far but ...
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How to dock and wake Windows laptop without opening it?
I want to plug in the dock (with the dongle for my wireless keyboard) and then wake up my Windows laptop with the keyboard. If the dock/dongle is connected to my laptop before the laptop goes to sleep,...
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Why does my internal SSD take a long time (about 30 seconds) to become accessible Windows 10?
When I resume my PC from sleep, a particular SSD takes about 30 seconds to become available (I can see the drive but Explorer freezes accessing it during this time). It otherwise operates normally (...
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Windows 11 machine not sleeping / display not sleeping either
I have been attempting to troubleshoot an issue that has plagued me ever since reformatting my machine to Win11. Ever since, Win11 will not sleep properly nor will it put my display to sleep either.
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How can I make my computer go into "sleep" mode when no apps are in use, without shutting down display
I want to save power consumption and preserve my components, without locking my screen and without shutting down the display. Basically just show the desktop but running with minimum power. It could ...
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Turn off laptop display without putting it to sleep
I tried the suggestions on Turn off display in Windows on command and they aren't suitable.
The Screensaver method only blanks the display without turning it off. Maybe that would work for OLED users.
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Did Windows change the login screen behavior to explicitly prevent typing in a password until the screen is fully initialized?
In older versions of Windows (at least Windows XP, maybe as late as Windows 7), I used to be able to wake up the computer from sleep (by moving the mouse or hitting a key on the keyboard) and then ...
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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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Prevent sleep for RDP client [duplicate]
I am using 2 Windows machines, where I am connecting from one of them (client, Win11) to another (host, Win10) using RDP (mstsc). My client PC has settings for display to be turned off and PC to be ...
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Linux guest in VirtualBox restarts session after Win11 host wakes from sleep
I've recently transferred my VM from an old Win10 laptop to a new Win11 one and encountered very annoying issue: If I close my laptop, making it go to sleep, and when wake it up after some time, my ...
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Windows laptop wakes up automatically from sleep
I am unable to put my Lenovo laptop in sleep. When I put it to sleep, it wakes automatically up within a minute, without me doing anything.
I checked even viewer. Below are the screen shots. It says ...
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windows 11 "low battery action" is missing "sleep" option
my laptop able to go to sleep just fine via sleep button, closing the lid, or timer. but the windows "low battery action" is missing "sleep" option.
so it only got this option: do ...
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Windows "Schedule Wake To Work" scheduled tasks resume from sleep
My PC is resuming from sleep because wake computer is enabled within scheduled task Schedule Wake To Work:
Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (...
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How to change Windows sleep time to something > 5 hours?
Windows 11 settings allow different intervals until the PC is put to sleep due to inactivity. 5 hours is the longest duration. I'd like to configure my PC to go to sleep after a day's inactivity, but ...
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