How to change Sleep settings on Windows 10

Windows comes with an idle feature which puts a computer into Sleep Mode to save energy and battery life. In Sleep Mode, the computer halts all the activities, and the state is saved. When you are up to handle the […]

Windows computer shuts down instead of Sleep

Windows 10 is an operating system that is packed with a ton of features. Many of the features are related to turning off computers in different states so that power can be saved at different levels. It lists out as […]

Windows 10 won’t go to Sleep – Legacy Kernel Caller

Does the display of your computer turn on all of a sudden? No matter how many time you put it to sleep, it always wakes up. Windows 10 computer Sleep state is built such that only if it’s essential, it wakes […]

Windows 10 goes to sleep automatically randomly

If your Windows 10 laptop or computer keeps going to sleep while using, here are a few things you need to take a look at to resolve the issue. Some users have been making complaints recently about problems where Windows […]

Fix Windows 10 crashes when waking up from sleep

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 10 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 […]

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 External Hard Disk from going to sleep

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

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 10/8/7

You can use the Windows Task Scheduler to wake up your Windows 10 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 […]

How To Make Windows 10 Auto Login After Sleep Using Registry

Many 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 than […]

Disable login after Sleep in Windows 10/8/7

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

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 […]

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 […]

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