Hi all, First post although I've spent a lot of time today browsing the various forums this really bugs me. I bought a Lenovo Ideapad 100 quite cheap recently, the first thing I did is went to power saving settings and turned them off, I want to be able to just reach over to it and use it without putting any passcodes in. It still sleeps after 2 or 3 minutes and I have to enter my passcode again. Is this common on all copies of Windows 10? I did a google search a few weeks ago and saw someone else on a different forum saying something similar. No matter what settings you tell it in the sleep/shutdown screens it will always sleep and go to the enter passcode screen. Any ideas?
it may have its own battery software and special profiles like my laptop asus n750jk... or maybe it changes when you plug it in or out like mine? or else just format it? its not hardware related its software...
If you have already disabled sleep in the Power Options, then run cmd as admin and type powercfg -h off This will disable hibernation (as well as delete the hiberfil file, saving you Gbs of space too)
I'll try the powercfg thing, pretty sure I turned that option off before when it was driving me nuts. Otherwise I'll just format the thing and be done with it
No its not overheating, otherwise it would shut down completely and not go to the lock-screen. I'll re-install, just not tonight as I can't be bothered.
If it annoys you, as it does me, to have to logon every time by entering password, you can easily arrange to logon automatically: In Run enter: netplwiz to access the facility. Untick the box ‘Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer’. Select your account before clicking ‘Apply’, and enter your password as asked. Click OK. Even if you reinstall, you may still find the above time- and nerve-saving.
Control panel > Power Options > Select a power plan > Change plan settings Now you should see "Change advanced power settings" - click on that and go through the entire list. I found something (can't recall what) that was putting my laptop to sleep. Now it's awake forever, while AC power is good.