With all the keyboard shortcuts available in Win 7, isn't there one to put the computer to sleep?
The system came with a discontinued mouse/keyboard business set. The keyboard had a "sleep" key. Alas, this keyboard was not liquid-proof and a cup of tea ended its brief career as my favorite keyboard. The new MS keyboards seem to have every key EXCEPT the "sleep" key.
Is there any way in Windows 7 that I could set up a keyboard shortcut that would paste a short predefined text field at the point of the cursor?
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I have tried finding the screensaver folder in explorer but no luck there.
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Now I am asking here.
How to make a keyboard shortcut to the scrensaver .
so I have 10,000msecond(2.7hour) shortcut to shutdown my computer ("C:WindowsSystem32shutdown.exe -s -t 10000") which i use for watching films before bed, just encase i sleep half way through but I was wondering if there was a way to make a similar shortcut but instead of making your computer shutdown in a few hours make it sleep in a few hours time. Now I know how to make a sleep shortcut but that makes the computer sleep instantly, and putting "-t 10000" at the end of "C:WindowsSystem32 .exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0" doesnt work. Apparently their is a way to do it if you install some software but I don't want that.
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The only thing i found near to what i'm searching is the shortcut to switch through active elements that is like moving the mouse over icons of pinned-apps, that is not the same.
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Product: HP Pavilion dv9700
Model: dv9925nr
Windows 7 home premium 64bit
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I am trying to get my PC to be woken from sleep by the keyboard. My keyboard and mouse are both USB devices so I have gone into my bios to enable USB devices to wake PC from sleep.Now though my PC wont go into sleep mode all it does is breifly enter sleep mode then straight away comes back out of it, is there any thing that can be done to get around this problem.
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I pretty much need to have quick brightness keyboard control due to my light sensitivity. Win+X is annoying to resort to.
Also, when the FN+up/down keys DO work to change the brightness, it says: "Ambient Light Sensor Disabled". (Also also, I checked, and I have no "sensors" installed, so says my system.) Also, my keyboard has a FN+Auto Dimmer key that is the 'left' key in the arrow set, but it doesn't appear to do anything. Or am I completely missing that THIS might be what I need to hit in order to enable keyboard dimming commands? (I haven't tried, but right now, after coming out of Sleep mode, the dimming commands are working and the "auto" option does nothing).
Anyway....
Windows 7 Home Premuim
Dell Latitude E5410
Intel Core i5 m450 2.5ghz
4gb ram
32bit
DirectX 11
Intel HD Graphics 1562mb 60hz
Don't know what else you need to know. I did some searching online and this might be a BIOS setting, but I didn't want to go that route before I talk to someone. (PS, Power Options, as far as I can tell, only lets me manually, on the screen, adjust brightness - it seems to have no control over keyboard adjustment settings).
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I think it might matter that I do not hide extensions ['Hide extensions for known files' (Option in Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options... -> View)].