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Apr 7, 2014

I had set my computer to go to sleep after 2 hours.

I got tired of it sleeping & changed the sleep setting to "Never".

It still went to sleep after 2 hours.

So I checked in advanced settings & found that "hybrid sleep" was turned on.I shut it off & my computer quit going to sleep.

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