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Disable Windows 8 sleep WITHOUT disabling screen turning off
To run long-duration operations on my Windows 8 laptop, I need for it to not go to sleep. HOWEVER, I still want the screen to be able to automatically urn off after a time without keyboard presses and ...
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Black screen after Windows logo. What is happening to my machine?
I downloaded a PDF version of a book from internet archives on my smartphone and transferred it to my PC via Bluetooth, read it for 10-15 mins, and then attended a call from a friend while my PC was ...
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Hamachi does not connect (icons remain green) after sleep
I have a Windows 8 laptop and need to use it to ssh into an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop in the office. I use Hamachi on both machines to connect via a vpn.
Everything has been working fine for several weeks,...
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Laptop display malfunction?
I just came home from school and turned on my computer from sleep mode, and this showed up
Yesterday I had to put my laptop on sleep mode on battery for the night, because I had to charge my phone, ...
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Will turning of the power to a pc in sleep mode cause any problems?
I have a pc that whenever I go to sleep I need to save some programs in a way that I don't have to close them. So what I've been doing is putting my pc into sleep mode. This reacently caused it to ...
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Computer wakes up when called by ip
I have a Z97 motherboard from ASUS (windows 10), setup to work with wake on lan in uefi and windows settings:
In the uefi settings I enabled wake on pci express from APM settings
in windows, device ...
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Does Windows ever stop services when resuming from sleep?
I'm running on windows 8.
Occasionally, when I resume from sleep, my service gets a stop request through the SCM (call to SvcCtrlHandler with SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP). I wasn't able to trace the source ...
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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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Why is Windows 8 waking up the PC even when there are no wake timers and no pending maintenance tasks? [duplicate]
My desktop PC keeps waking up every time I put it to sleep. I put it to sleep, it wakes up. I put it to sleep again, it wakes up. I put it to sleep once more, it wakes up! It only stays asleep for ...
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USB appears to prevent Windows from sleeping
After running the diagnostic tests mentioned in many answers concerning why Windows might not sleep I discovered that USB devices were the culprit (well, that and Windows Media Player, but that was ...
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Cannot Wake Laptop From Sleep
I just got a laptop with Windows 8.0 Pro 64 bit. I know this is common problem but I cannot get this solved. When the laptop goes to sleep, it cannot be woken up. I have tried to search google and ...
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How do I prevent removing a USB drive from waking my computer?
When I put my Windows 8.1 machine to sleep and then remove a USB drive, it wakes up. This is very annoying. Is there anyway to disable it?
C:\Users\TallGuy>powercfg /lastwake
Wake History Count - ...
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Window 8.1 freeze after wakeup from sleep and hibernate
My Windows froze after wake up from sleep mode or resume from hibernate mode. Before this happen I was using it fine.
It's up for a few second and then freeze (mouse/keyboard don't work, heard of ...
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Is it okay to use sleep mode for my laptop all the time? [duplicate]
I use many applications every day, so it's important for me to get the complete desktop state (all windows, shells, etc. in the same state they were in, etc.) back instantly when I turn on the ...
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Windows 8 webcam automatically taking a photo when it wakes up
Is it possible to have the webcam take a picture if my computer is woken from sleep mode?
I have seen that there are some programs with motion detection, but I would prefer a method that takes a ...
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