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Old November 28th 17, 09:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default System Idle Problem!

Wolf K wrote:
On 2017-11-28 00:44, OREALLY wrote:
I'm just curious: Why would Windows seek an excuse to go back to sleep?

[...]

Can you say "laptop batteries"?

:-)


Well, if you bump the mouse, and then make no other
input to the machine, the logic says "this was an
accident", and the machine can then go back to sleep
within five minutes.

I think one night here, the Windows 10 machine was
showing "restart", and I beat it to the draw and
restarted it anyway. A little later, I manually
put it to sleep. The OS left a wake event in the
scheduler. The machine awoke at 4AM or so, because the
scheduler had been set, but went back to sleep again
soon after that. If it wanted, it could have stayed
awake until the next day, because all my machines
are set to "Automatic Sleep: Never". But it did go
back to sleep on its own. (When computers sleep here,
I put them to sleep manually from the menu.)

Paul
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