Questions tagged [sleep]
Sleep mode is a low-power state designed to provide very fast resuming of a computer's operation, with minimal power consumption.
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NVIDIA USB Type-C port policy controller keeps waking my PC up
My Laptop (HP Omen 15, Windows 10) is driving me crazy by turning itself on from sleep mode on its own. If I put it to sleep with the power button, it will often turn on again after about 3 seconds, ...
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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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Prevent landscape image + sign in when resuming from sleep with Windows 10
When resuming from sleep on Windows 10 22H2, I have :
a random landscape photo with some information
if I click, I get a "sign in" button (I don't use any password anyway)
How to prevent ...
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How to suspend Fedora 39 after a given delay
recently I started setting up a new Fedora 39 machine and ran into an issue where it would suspend when I boot it (using wake on lan) and then connect to SSH. I think that it doesn't register SSH as ...
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Is it bad for the screen to keep turning on and off many times?
In screen timeout settings, windows 10 has option to turn off screen after desired minutes..
Is bad for screen if I set to turn off screen after 5min, so screen keep turning on and off
during my ...
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Stop Hard Drive from waking up after Sleep?
I use my PC mostly for studying. I take frequent breaks during these study sessions and put my PC to sleep to limit dust entering its case and also to save power. I have an SSD (where Windows resides) ...
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Kubuntu crashes upon sleep on Surface Laptop
I'm running Kubuntu 23.10 on my Surface Laptop 3, and when I sleep the computer, instead of going fully black, it goes black and just shows my cursor, but I can't move it. In order to get back into my ...
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Prevent Windows 11 from going to sleep after RDP session was closed
While there are several threads about Windows RDP sessions and sleep I could not find one matching my use case.
I encounter the following situation. After I close the RDP connection to a Windows 11 ...
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Windows stop all radios when you go to sleep / hybrid sleep / s3 sleep
I am looking for an automatic way to prevent any Bluetooth and/or WiFi connections during certain times. E.g. while my PC is asleep.
Because Microsoft in its infinite wisdom and user servitude, has ...
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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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External audio device goes to sleep if no audio is sent from Windows every few seconds
I have an external Bluetooth audio device (UE Boom) that I have connected to my Windows 11 PC through the auxiliary headphone jack (NOT BLUETOOTH). As long as the PC is sending continous audio to the ...
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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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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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Can Windows machines wake as fast as Mac? [closed]
My wife is a Mac user and I am a Windows user. When my wife opens the lid of her 2017 Macbook, the computer is almost instantly awake and running, with everything useable on the desktop. Even at its ...
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Monitors swapping and windows moving on PC wakeup
I just got a new monitor and set it up without issue accept for when the computer sleeps, the tabs get shuffled and the pc seems to mix up which monitor is which. The old monitors are the exact same ...
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