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How to keep windows 7 from going to sleep?

Guide on how to keep windows 7 from going to sleep.
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The users of windows 7 know that this edition has a sleep mode. This mode brings many advantages to the users. The first is intimately related to power savings, while the second involves being able to bring the operating system back to life in under 2 seconds. So this mode is popular with many users. But have you encountered this condition in there after starting sleep mode, you can not wake it up. Do you still love this? Now let us find how to avoid it.

1. You can make your Network Card to wake your Windows up from its sleep. Check your network card properties through the device manager and disable the "Allow this devide to wake the computer" feature.

2. You can find out what device make your Windows from sleep, go to command prompt (type cmd on the Run/Search box and press ENTER), then type this:powercfg-lastwake. To get the most detailed info on the device that wakes your Windows up during the sleep, type:powercfg-devicequery wake_armed. Then you can click the mouse to wake you pc up.

3. You can click "Change plan settings" of the selected plan under "Preferred plans". Then you may set to "Never" sleep and turn off the monitor after specified minutes.

If it still dose not work, the only way is reboot your pc.

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by christ on 16/07/2009Internet
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