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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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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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Artifacts on external display connected via USB-C hub after sleep (+ few other problems)

I wanted to have a setup where I would connect all the devices to a single USB-C hub and then switch between 3 different computers (ASUS Zenbook, Macbook and a stationary PC) just by simply switching ...
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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 and S3 sleep on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11

I got a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11, and it doesn't support S3 sleep mode. When in sleep the battery continues to drain, badly. ~ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep [s2idle] journactl |grep ...
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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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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 11 Lenovo Laptop not sleeping when I close the lid

I have a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 that I bought new two months ago, and it is running Windows 11. I have no idea why, but starting a few days ago, whenever I close the lid of my laptop, it doesn't sleep. ...
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Listing a directory (and entering) on ZFS takes a few seconds the first time? (re: sleep/idle?)

I have a few ZFS ZPOOLs configured: NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT backup 1.81T 1.41M 1.81T - - 0% 0% 1.00x ...
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Computer wakes up from sleep and drains battery (lid malfunction?)

My Thinkpad P14s Gen 1 wakes up on the middle of the night, and drains the battery from 100% to 0%. I have tried every recommendation on the internet, but cannot seem to fix it. The power ...
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How to make Windows force sleep, ignoring everything preventing sleep?

I'm aware of powercfg/requestsoverride but is there a way to make it ignore everything? I have multiple, USB, audio devices etc. and it's difficult to find and add them all. I want my PC to go to ...
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Windows 10 laptop keeps going to sleep after a few minutes of idle despite power options

I have a laptop running Windows 10 and setup for RDP. I use the old app Terminals to RDP into the machine and the connection is fine while I am active. However, it keeps going to sleep after a few ...
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How can I get keyboard/mouse plugged into a USB-C hub monitor to wake laptop from sleep?

I purchased an HP laptop using Windows 11, and a USB hub monitor (Asus), and connected the laptop, mouse, and keyboard into the monitor. It's working fine, except the only thing that will wake it from ...
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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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Stop mouse from waking Windows PC

I know others have asked this exact question, but I have read the answers on those posts, and not found anything which solves the problem for me. My laptop will wake from sleep when the mouse is moved....
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Enable Fingerprint but still set Require Sign in to NEVER

Just installed Windows 10 Pro 22H2. OK maybe this makes no sense what I am trying to do but... Can I set up Windows Hello Fingerprint AND set "Require sign-in" to NEVER? My question is ...
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