Hello Joan,
I'm a bit confused when you say that the computer is turned off when it goes
into sleep mode.
It sounds like you're placing your computer on stand by, then, after 30
minutes or so, the computer goes directly into hibernate status.
This is the default reaction for a computer that is just sitting there doing
nothing, unless you turn this feature off in the power options.
First and foremost, are you saying that if you come back to the computer
within the 30 minutes, you simply have to press a key on the computer, and
the computer will come alive again?
If this is the case, then you are most definitely not turning your computer
off, you are placing the computer in stand by mode, which means that it uses
less power than if it was fully turned off, and places everything you were
doing in a temporary folder so that you can access it quickly when you come
back to it.
I don't know whether you wanted your computer to do this or not, but if you
didn't, I'll give instructions on how to turn it off below.
If you did want it to be like this, then you have nothing more to do, in
which case, you simply have to turn off the hibernate mode on your computer,
and that will be in the explanation below also.
At this point, I need you to detail how exactly you're turning the computer
on and off.
What I mean is, do you go into the start menu, select turn off computer...
and arrow down to turn computer off or what ever, or do you simply press and
hold the power button until it turns off?
Or, do you simply tap the power button and let it go, then the computer
shuts down?
The reason I ask is because the computer will do certain things, if set that
way, when you close the lid of your computer, or when you press the power
button.
You can essentially set it to stand by, hibernate, shut down, or do nothing.
This goes for both the lid of the computer and the power button.
both these items can be set to those four scenarios. To get there, I'll
explain in my message on how to turn off the hibernation mode in the next
paragraph.
So, to turn off hibernation mode, and set the computer to never sleep or
something like that, first you have to open up the power options in your
control panel. Since you've previously done this, I won't mention it here
for room's sake.
Once the dialog box is open, you should land on the combo box that outlines
your choices for the power scheme you wish to use.
I believe you want always on, so arrow up or down to that choice and you're
done with this tab.
You will need to go to three tabs over, so press control+tab three times
until you reach the advanced tab.
In this tab, you'll find the options for what your computer should do when
you shut the lid and press the power button.
As a rule, all my computers are set to do nothing when I do these two
things, as I prefer to have full control of my equipment. Either way, you
can set it to what ever you wish. Your options are:
Do nothing;
stand by;
hibernate;
In the case of the power button, you have two additional options, those
being to ask me what to do and to fully shut down.
Like I said, I usually tell it to do nothing, that way I can set it to what
ever I want to do so that I inadvertently don't close the lid of my computer
when I've got a download running all night or something like that.
Either way, it's up to your personal preferences.
Once you've selected your options for this tab, move once to the next tab
with control+tab, and you should land on the hibernation page. If
hibernation is turned on, you'll find the check box on this page to be
checked, with the phrase being, "Enable hibernation".
If you should wish to turn off hibernation mode, simply press the spacebar
to uncheck the box and that's it.
Once you've done this, tab down to apply, then shift+tab back to the ok
button, and you'll have full control of your computer again.
If you need any other help, let me know and I'll try to answer your
questions, if any.
Victor
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