Posts under Sleep tag.

Windows 10 crashes after waking up from Sleep

If one of the recent updates or upgrade to Windows 10 PC results in getting a Blue Screen as soon as you wake it from Sleep, then it’s a clear case that your driver is causing an issue. In a […]

Windows 10 computer turns on by itself

A computer turning on all by itself randomly can be very annoying. I have faced this situation multiple numbers of times, and I had to make sure to turn the switch off, so there is no chance of it turning […]

Windows 10 computer goes to Sleep too early

Windows PCs have a Lockout feature which makes sure that your PC is locked or goes to Sleep when left unattended. If you have set up a Password or Pin or any other form of lock, you will be asked […]

Caffeine for Windows will prevent computer from Sleeping or Locking

Windows OS is designed to expend less energy in an attempt to save more power. This, it intends to achieve via auto turning off the display when there no activity reported. However, this is not the case always. At times, […]

Windows will not wake up from Sleep Mode

There may be times where you may find that try as you may, your Windows 10/8/7 computer does not wake up from Sleep Mode. Moving the mouse or pressing keyboard keys just does not help. If you face this issue, […]

Make Windows 10 PC require password on wakeup from Sleep

Protecting access to our Windows 10 PC is of paramount importance, and one way of doing it is protecting it with the help of a strong password. While most of us use a password to log in, quite a few […]

Prevent Hard Disk from going to Sleep in Windows 10/8/7

In this post, we will see how you can prevent your primary, secondary or external hard disk drive or USB from going to sleep on a Windows 10/8/7 computer. You do not want your external hard disk going to sleep […]

Don’t Sleep: Prevent Windows Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernate, Restart

Windows has its own default Power Plans to save energy by turning off the display when there isn’t any activity, for a certain time period. It also put your computer to sleep when you don’t touch your keyboard or move […]

Sleep Mode not working in Windows 10/8.1/7

Many times, we need to put our Windows computer into the Sleep Mode, so that we can instantly wake and use it when we need it, without losing the time required for booting it. But sometimes, Windows will not Sleep.  If Windows […]

Wake up computer from Sleep, at a particular time, in Windows 7 / 8 / 10

You can use the Windows Task Scheduler to wake up your Windows computer wake from sleep mode, automatically at a pre-set time. This can be useful if you want a particular task performed at a particular time. Maybe you want to […]

How To Make Windows 10 Auto Logon After Sleep

Many a times it happens with all of us, that we want to close the laptop, but not by shutting down it – so we use the Sleep option. Using this way, you can wake up your system instantly, rather […]

Disable login after Sleep in Windows 10/8/7

We have already seen how to log in directly into Windows without entering password. Today in this article, I’m going to share you the option that is sometimes pretty helpful. Actually whenever we gets to sleep mode in Windows 7/8/10, and […]

Coffee Portable, Milk & Sugar To Keep Your PC Awake During Network Transfers and Downloads

You might have encountered this situation where you may have left your laptop on to download something, when you come back your Windows laptop might have gone to sleep and ruined your download and you have to start it all […]

Sleep Preventer: Prevent your computer from switching to Sleep, Hibernate, Standby mode

We have already seen two tools – Mouse Jiggler and Insomnia that can prevent your Windows computer from going to sleep. Sleep Preventer is yet another portable app that prevents a computer from dimming the screen display or entering into […]

How to prevent Computer from waking up from Sleep unexpectedly

We have earlier seen how you can prevent Windows computer from going to sleep. In this article, we will tell you how you can prevent your computer from waking up from Sleep unexpectedly. It happens to most of us, we […]

Prevent Windows computer from going to sleep with Mouse Jiggler

We had earlier posted about this tool Insomnia from MSDN, a simple WPF portable application that calls the SetThreadExecutionState API to disable sleep mode for as long as it’s running. Mouse Jiggler is another such tool that fools your computer […]

Difference between Sleep, Hybrid Sleep & Hibernation in Windows 10/8/7

Many of us are not familiar with the exact difference between the various power saving modes in a Windows computer like Sleep, Hibernation or Hybrid Sleep. In this article, we will see the difference between these terms. Sleep vs. Hibernate […]

Windows 7 Touch Screen not working after resuming from sleep? Restart says Microsoft!

Does your Touch Screen not work correctly after you resume a Windows 7 based computer from sleep? Lets say you have a Windows 7-based computer that is connected to one or more touch screens – and you put the computer […]

Windows computer wakes from sleep automatically

Do you find that your Windows 10/8/7 computer wakes up from sleep unexpectedly at a particular time every day? If so then you might need to check up if any scheduled tasks are waking your PC up. Windows computer wakes […]

How to wake up your PC from Stand-by mode or Hibernation

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to wake up your system from a Stand-by mode or Hibernation programmatically? The answer is yes, it’s possible. Wake-Up is a utility which will do it for you.