{"id":2428,"date":"2011-03-31T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:40:19","slug":"solving-the-mystery-of-my-drowsy-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/solving-the-mystery-of-my-drowsy-pc.htm","title":{"rendered":"Solving the mystery of my drowsy PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many annoyances resulting from my company laptop being rebuilt onto a corporate standard build has been that it keeps on shutting down overnight. That might sound very green, but it&#8217;s actually not very useful &#8211; for example when certain processes are running &#8211; and there&#8217;s the added complication that I need to supply a username and password to the hard disk encryption software, using the built-in keyboard hidden under a document stand, because my Bluetooth keyboard is not available pre-boot.<\/p>\n<p>After checking the Windows Power Options, my next assumption was that my employer&#8217;s administrators had installed something on my machine that was what was switching it off at night. After a little digging, I found the answer and it wasn&#8217;t some piece of systems management software &#8211; it&#8217;s a bit of poor user interface design by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>In their quest to simplify the Windows UI, Microsoft has presented a very simple Power Options interface to &#8220;Change when the computer sleeps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/windows7-poweroptions.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows 7 Power Options\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>My computer is set to never sleep, when plugged in &#8211; but that&#8217;s not the whole story. It seems that, by clicking the link to change advanced power settings, there are many more settings I can change &#8211; including when the computer hibernates (hidden under a sleep heading).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/windows7-poweroptions-advanced.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows 7 Power Options Advanced\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>It turned out that my computer was set to hibernate after 360 minutes (6 hours) &#8211; since changing this to 0 (never), my PC has happily spun down its disks and turned off its display but, crucially, kept running overnight.<\/p>\n<p>I know the difference between hibernate and standby &#8211; but does the average Windows user? I&#8217;d argue not! I&#8217;ve criticised Apple before for over-simplifying tasks in OS X and it seems that Microsoft has fallen into the same trap with Windows too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many annoyances resulting from my company laptop being rebuilt onto a corporate standard build has been that it keeps on shutting down overnight. 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