Questions tagged [standby]
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Windows 10 Connected Standby causing major processor throttling on battery
I have a Dell XPS 9710 (laptop) with an i7 11800H, currently with Connected Standby turned ON. I know I know, it's an easy Registry Entry to disable, but gosh darn it I LIKE how quickly it gets my ...
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Turn off Windows screen without locking screen in Windows 11
I usually have my computers set up to require a login after waking up from sleep or hibernate, but I don't want to enter a password if the screen is just turned off, either from a timeout or if I ...
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Windows 10 on a laptop: putting just the LCD to sleep without affecting other operating system tasks
I have a laptop (Dell Latitude E6430) that I am using to record video files 24/7 at a remote site. I would like for the laptop LCD screen to turn off after a few minutes of keyboard/touchpad disuse to ...
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Does Microsoft requires that in order to support S0ix sleep, S3 must be disabled? Where is it documented?
I've read that Microsoft requires that machines supporting the S0ix sleep state, must not support (present) the S3 state.
Is this true? Is this officially documented somewhere?
I was looking for an ...
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Is the “idle3” timeout mess still relevant on Western Digital WD Blue hard drives from 2022?
THE QUESTION:
Is the “idle3” timeout still relevant for 2022 Western Digital Blue hard drives, and specifically for their WD40EZAZ line? Or should I take hdparm -J reporting an invalid exchange as ...
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Spin-Down not working on WD-Red
I am using a WD Red drive
Model Family: Western Digital Red
Device Model: WDC WD120EMFZ-11A6JA0
I have set it to spin down after 10 minutes:
hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
setting ...
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Windows 10: How to prevent HDMI audio cut off on display blanking
Having laptop with AMD graphics, using it to output image also as the sound to Dell display where external speakers are connected.
Windows 10 display settings say "10 minutes of idle to switch ...
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mstsc prevents standby windows 11
My Windows 11 has recently developed a sleeping disorder. This is the result of powercfg -requests:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe
RAIL Power Request
[PROCESS] \Device\...
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How do I enable Modern Standby again (after disabling it via registry)
I have used PowerShell to deactivate Modern Standby on my Windows 10 machine following this tutorial because my computer did not wake up on touch, and I wanted to test if disabling Modern Standby ...
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PC waking up from standby on its own exactly one time?
Both my personal and work laptop (working from home currently) wake up on their own just seconds after I put them into standby for the first. After that, the standby works just fine without the PC ...
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What is Windows 11 doing in the Maintenance Phase of Modern Standby when it should be sleeping?
I have a new Windows 11 machine that seems to support Modern Standby fine. Often, though, it seems to keep running when I put it to sleep. I have run powercfg.exe -SleepStudy and the report shows the ...
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How to make it the default that a wireless device cannot wake up Windows from standby?
When I plug-in a dongle of a wireless mouse or keyboard, often even if I just switch already known mice when I am underway, I often need to change the Windows settings of the "HID conform" ...
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Disable Modern Standby or get back S3 standby mode in a HP laptop (Windows 10)
Like many other users I'm trying to disable this new feature that goes by different names (Modern Standby / Connected Standby / Always on always connected / S0ix / InstantGo / ...) as it has lots of ...
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Windows always starts again (= wakes up) from standby (= sleep) after some seconds in standby (with wireless devices like mouse or keyboard in use)
On a Windows laptop (question is for pc as well), when I enter the standby mode, it automatically wakes up again after a few seconds.
I vaguely remember having solved this before. That is why I guess ...
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Windows 10 constantly wakes from screen standby
I have a new install of Windows 10, with all the updates it needs, on a desktop computer. The computer is always on but the screens are set to sleep after 3 minutes.
The screens do go to standby, but ...
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