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Windows 8.1 Won't stay asleep
As the title indicates, my 8.1 Windows PC will not stay asleep.
-I have globally disabled all wake timers through the power options, and verified that there are no active wake timers via the ...
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Touch display doesn't turn on when system wakes
I have a windows 8.1 system being used as digital signage. I would like it to wake up automatically in the mourning and sleep at night. Sleeping at night works fine, and having task scheduler run echo ...
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Laptop shuts down instead of going into sleep mode when I send it to sleep
I'm using an Asus laptop. It's more than a year old. This has been going on for maybe a month. I've looked into all the basic settings but can't find what's causing the problem. Here are the settings: ...
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Computer waking up from sleep by itself
My PC, running Windows 8.1, is waking up from sleep by itself.
I have wake-up timers disabled:
And there should be no hardware that is allowed to wake my device:
In the second picture, we do see ...
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Windows 8 embedded sporadic/randomly goes to sleep. Possibly network related
I have 2 PC's running Windows 8.1 Embedded. Last week after months of up-time they went to sleep. There was no windows event logging to match this, only PnP messages from plugging my keyboard in to ...
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Windows 8.1 computer repeatedly wakes up and goes to sleep again
I put my computer (Windows 8.1 Pro) to sleep every evening.
For a couple days now, I find it awake in the morning. A quick check in Event Viewer shows that it actually woke up and (apparently) put ...
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Manually controlling hdd sleep
My question is about controlling and getting info about HDD sleep (or HDD hibernation) in Windows 8.1. I am not referring to system hybernation.
How to manually put hdd into sleep
How to check, if ...
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Laptop waking up from sleep because of "power button"? (Windows 8.1)
My computer is brand new but has a serious problem - it wakes up from sleep mode on its own in the middle of the night, usually a couple hours after I put it into sleep mode. This problem is ...
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Domain keeps Windows 8.1 computer from sleeping
I've recently went back from Win 10 Tech preview to Windows 8.1, where my computer has been connected to my home domain with both operative systemes.
This has never been an issue before and I havent ...
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Why my computer won't enter sleep mode?
My Windows 8.1 set sleep time and turn off display to 1 minute
Network adapter wake the computer disabled.
powercfg command seems to have no problem.
Even powercfg -energy still found nothing ...
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Windows 8.1 Laptop; Is there a way for closed lid to cause sleep but not when there is a monitor hooked up?
Is it possible to make a laptop sleep when the lid is closed UNLESS there is an external monitor that is plugged in? Perhaps a registry hack or third party software?
The control panel power settings ...
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Laptop only sleeps when I close the lid a second time
I'm using a Lenovo Y-50 Touch with Windows 8.1 Update 1.
I've noticed that in the past couple of weeks, I'm having issues with getting my laptop to sleep when I close the lid. I first noticed the ...
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My PC gets stuck while sleeping, on Windows 8.1
While installing Windows updates, I pressed the power button (set to do sleep), but my PC got stuck and I was forced to force shutdown by holding down the power button.
Since then I cannot use sleep; ...
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Need to reboot after waking from sleep mode on my windows 8.1 tablet
I searched and tried much but it does little help to my problem.
When I put my tablet pc aside and it will sleep after 5 mins. This is what I expected by setting power config.
However if I leave it ...
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Dell XPS Running Windows 8.1 Not Entering Sleep Mode --> Shuts Down
Recently, my Dell XPS running windows 8.1 (which had been upgraded from Win7) attempts to go into sleep mode but just shuts down (without properly closing documents or browsers). Any advise?
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