Hi, The shutdown is different in 8, 8.1 and 10. They call it a HiBread shutdown where it just saves everything to a file on the hard drive so that it will boot up quicker the next time. You can disable this in the power options if you like, I suspect that this has something to do with your issue.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of anna vimini Sent: 31 October 2015 15:43 To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] sleep mmode in windows 8.1 The other day I shutdown my computer or at least I thought I did and then when I went back to it the next day my sighted person said it was on all night. but when I turned the monitor and the speakers it was just a blank screen and I could not get it to go into the windows so I unplugged everything and then plugged it back in again and everything is working fine now , so I must have put in in sleep mode by accident . so my question is how do you get a windows 8.1 64 bit machine out of sleep mode ? Thanks in advance For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ ******************************************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and GSi recipients NHSmail provides an email address for your career in the NHS and can be accessed anywhere ******************************************************************************************************************** For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
