joebedford wrote:
Hey - if you find one that puts the machine to sleep, please let me know. My machine will not automatically sleep despite all settings saying to do so. I have to manually sleep it using the start menu.
Get a bigger hammer?
Seriously though, I fail to understand why folks insist on having their PCs "sleep" or "hibernate".. Given the speed PCs boot now days and if you have a SSD drive, boot up time from a cold start is one or two seconds.. For all intents and purposes as fast as taking a PC out of hiboernate or sleep mode..
I NEVER allow my PCs to automatically sleep or hibernate.. Windows has to temporarily "save" all the open files when it does this.. Gives the OS a real good chance to bork up something in the process..
I turn my PC on at the beginning of the day and before I go to bed I shut the PC down properly then I turn the surge protector OFF that the PC is plugged into.. This ensures my desktop PC is completely powered off adding years to the power supply life..
Laptops, you simply turn the blasted thing off and that allows the charger to top off the battery overnight..
