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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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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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Delay sleep/login page when closing laptop lid on Windows?
I want to be able to close my laptop lid, but not have the laptop got to sleep for a set amount of time (e.g. 5 minutes). If I open the laptop in that time, it bring be back to where I was without a ...
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Laptop shutdown right after lid is closed
I own an ASUS G750JS, which never had a problem till now. When I am on my computer and I close the lid for the night, it suddenly shuts down. Sometimes it goes to sleep but 90 percent of the time its ...
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Prevent Notebook from resuming from Standby while on Battery
A recurring problem I see with notebooks is having them resume from standby or hibernation while on battery.
This can be caused by a wide range of possible reasons, ranging from network activity over ...
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Dell Inspiron 3537 not waking up after closing lid
A lot of people seem to have the same problem as me, however after trying everything that I have found online, it still doesn't work.
As the title suggests, I close the lid on the laptop and when I ...
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How to find out what's causing a laptop to take too long to go to sleep?
Until recently my laptop took at most around 5 seconds to go to sleep when the lid is closed. This was the case for several months. Recently however, my laptop takes around 2 minutes (maybe more) to ...
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Close lid to sleep just about and open lid to wake up asap without requiring password if done soon enough
I am sure at some point this tablet-like laptop was doing the thing I've briefly described in the title. That is, within the first couple of months that I've started using this thing.
I am using a ...
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Acer Aspire E1-572G doesn't wake up
I recently got a new Acer Aspire E1-572G and every time I sleep it closing the lid it is impossible to wake it up.
I applied the solutions to this question but the problem persists.
I already had ...
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How can I find out what's waking up my ultrabook?
So I just got a new machine and I noticed when I woke up the next day that the screen was on, meaning it somehow woke itself up on sleep. I had already disabled the waking options for mice and ...
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Computer waking up from sleep in frequent intervals, no solution found yet
I have an Asus laptop (Q501LA) with Windows 8.1 installed (upgraded from Windows 8). Throughout the day when the laptop is on, it wakes up by itself from sleep. This problem has occurred both in ...
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Stop laptop from resuming from sleep by opening the lid
I'm using a Dell Inspiron N411z. When I open the lid, the laptop automatically resumes from sleep.
I don't want this behaviour. I want to manually press the power button to wake it up. Is there a way ...
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