Solved Sleep & Power Saving

[retale13]

I have an Acer Inspire and an LG 32inch Monitor, purchased together. The scree and computer go into sleep mode after about 2 minutes of inactivity. I have been into Settings/System/Power & Sleep and set Screen to 1 hour and Sleep to never. Still the system dozes off after a couple of minutes of inactivity. I cant find any other settings option that seems relevant. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Lanctus]

Have you turned off Hibernate? That puts your laptop to "sleep" to conserve power.

 

[jenae]

Hi, well disabling Hibernate will remove the sleep function I don't think you want this, on a laptop.

It is called "sleep unattended timeout" and a simple reg mod can give you control, it adds in advanced power settings (I note you have been there) under "sleep" a further option:- "Unattended sleep Timeout" the default is 2 mins. You can increase this to whatever you want.

Go to search and type:- command prompt, right click on the returned command prompt and select "run as administrator" an elevated cmd prompt will open. Copy all the cmd text below and anywhere in the cmd prompt window right click select "paste" the cmd will append to the prompt, press enter. (you will see a success message, takes immediately so go to advanced powers settings and make your changes (under "sleep"). Perfectly safe I wrote the mod myself.

reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0" /v attributes /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

If you wanted to disable this mod you can navigate to the key (regedit) and modify the value data "attributes" from 2 to 1.

 

[AmateurJohn]

I am currently using a laptop, and I have hibernate off, as always. Hibernate might be the problem.

 

[AmateurJohn]

Settings>System>Power & Sleep>Additional Power Settings>Change Plan Settings>Change Advanced Power Settings>Find "Sleep" drop down the menu>You will see "Hibernate After", and choose what you would like. To make it go to never for both just click on the blue words after "on battery" and/or "plugged in" and type or find "never" or whatever setting you desire. You can also look at the other sleep options etc. Make sure to click "Apply" when done.

 

[jenae]

Hi Amateur John, the OP has already been there, this is a known issue, the fix is in my post.

 

[DaveA]

I use a laptop and have ALL suspend, sleep and hibernate turned OFF.

The monitor may have a sleep or power off setting also?

 

[retale13]

Have you turned off Hibernate? That puts your laptop to "sleep" to conserve power.

Thanks for the reply it sounds good. I don't seem to be able to find "Hybernate". I've searched in Settings but no result.

 

[AmateurJohn]

Okay, Left click on the Windows Icon on the bottom of the left side of the screen. Next type "Power and Sleep". "Power and Sleep Settings" should pop up. Click on it. Next scroll the right side to a blue link called "Additional Power Settings". Next you should see plans, and have a selected plan. On the selected plan, click the blue link for "Change Plan settings". You should see a screen that says "On battery" and "Plugged In". Click the blue link, "Change Advanced Power Settings". Next you should see stuff like "Hard Disk" and "Desktop Background Settings". Look for "Sleep", and click on the "+" symbol. Next click the "+" symbol next to "Hibernate After". Next, if you want to stop the laptop from hibernating at all:
1. Click on the blue link next to "On Battery"
2. Then delete the numbers in the box and type "never"
3. Do this for "Plugged In" as well.
4. Click the minus sign next to "Hibernate After"
Then click "Apply" on the bottom of the window, and then click "Okay".

 

[jenae]

Hi, In post three I gave you the answer, it is an known issue, some OEM's do not include it in the install, and it is therefore missing, however it is a default setting, you have to invoke the Powersetting to have practical control. You are wasting yours and my time, by not following the instructions in post #3, there is no other way to fix your problem, it happens on thousands of computers and the reg fix is the way it is fixed.

 

[retale13]

I have an Acer Inspire and an LG 32inch Monitor, purchased together. The scree and computer go into sleep mode after about 2 minutes of inactivity. I have been into Settings/System/Power & Sleep and set Screen to 1 hour and Sleep to never. Still the system dozes off after a couple of minutes of inactivity. I cant find any other settings option that seems relevant. Any help would be much appreciated.

PROBLEM SOLVED> many thanks to you all for your suggestions. Changed the 2 settings in "power & Sleep" to never .changed screen saver settings to 10 minutes. No more frustrating logins every couple of minutes. Thanks again.