In Windows 7, the menus can be found in the Control Panel under Power Options in a section called Sleep. On Windows XP, you’ll see drop-down menus for adjusting the timeframe for sleep as well as when to turn off the monitor and hard drive. Just click on Start – Settings – Control Panel – Power Options and click the ‘ change plan settings’ link in Windows Vista. To enable or disable sleep mode on your PC, or to adjust the amount of time before it goes to sleep, you need to go into the Power Options setting in the Control Panel. If your own computer has problems coming out of sleep mode, then you might as well disable it because a forced restart means the system won’t log out properly and this can cause problems. I’ve seen it cause more problems with older computers than newer ones, especially with older versions of Windows like Windows 2000, Windows 98, and even Windows XP. I am not saying everyone should disable sleep mode on their PC, because it is pretty useful if it works properly. This could be an indication that your power supply is going out or overloaded, but it can be disheartening when your computer fails to recover. Microsoft says it should only take a few seconds, but sometimes it can take as long as a minute, and that’s if it does work at all. The idea is that when you press a key or hit the power button again, it should load everything back up like it was before it went into sleep mode. What happens on your computer is that it saves the current state of your PC and whatever programs are running or files are open.

On Microsoft’s site, they liken the act to when you pause a DVD player, but I think that is misleading.

The purpose of putting a Windows PC into sleep mode is to conserve power. In this article, I will discuss what sleep mode does and why it sometimes causes problems. I do this because I have seen far too many problems with a Windows computer not waking up after going into sleep mode, such as getting a Windows blue screen after sleep mode is enabled. When I am configuring a PC, one of the first things I often do is turn off the sleep mode in the power settings.

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