I've got got a new tower with windows 7, its been fine for the last 3 weeks, yet today it keeps going to sleep and taking me to the switch user screen, I've checked all the settings and they are ok, and I am the only user account on it?
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I am running Windows 7 Home Premium. I have the system set up to run two applications at certain times - Norton Scans being one.
Yesterday, it missed a scan and I suspect it was because of the power saving options - the computer is set to go to sleep after 30 minutes.
Does anyone know whether that is the case and if there is anyway to set up the power saving so that any timed applications will run OK?
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Now it just goes to the user login screen.
Has always worked perefctly until today.
Weird. Any ideas?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedthis computer now goes to sleep for no reason I have looked in the power control and nothing is maked to close down at any time where else controls this
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I press on the sleep button, it will just bring me to the login menu where I enter my password. I typed in powercfg /requests into the command menu to see if there was something stopping my computer from sleeping.
My output was:
Display:
None
System:
None
Away mode:
none
My computer was able to sleep earlier yesterday. I even tried to restore my Windows partition to 4 days before, but that did not fix it. The only significant thing that I did was messing around in Linux.
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