Wake timers are scheduled events (usually via the Windows Task Scheduler) that can wake up the PC from sleep/hibernate to run ...

If your monitor isn't going to sleep when it should, there's likely a program in the background keeping it awake. Using the powercfg /requests Windows command can reveal which apps are preventing your ...

If your Windows 11/10 computer doesn’t sleep on its own or shuts down after manually going to sleep, here are some suggestions to help you resolve the issue: Check External USB devices connected to ...

Put it back to sleep. Reason: drive is needed less than 1 hour every day; no point in incurring the wear, tear and power expenditure by having it spin all the time. Related question: Assuming the ...

My Windows 10 computer has decided it's not going to go to sleep automatically. The only thing I've installed recently is the software for my Corsair Mechanical keyboard (iCue). You'd think, though, ...

On Windows devices, the unanticipated waking of a PC from sleep mode is quite common. Sometimes, when you leave your workstation, you put your PC to sleep, but you still would want to keep the ...