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powerbutton put the machine to sleep when the power button pressed instead of shutting it down, 1 to enable or 0 to disable; powernap lets machine stay up to date even while they're sleeping, 1 to enable or 0 to disable; lidwake (laptop only) wake the machine when the laptop lid is opened, 1 to enable or 0 to disable
A real time clock alarm is a feature that can be used to allow a computer to 'wake up' after shut down to execute tasks every day or on a certain day. It can sometimes be found in the 'Power Management' section of a motherboard's BIOS/UEFI setup. Wake On LAN, Wake on ring, and IPMI functions could also be used to start a computer after it is ...
Active-state power management (ASPM) is a power management mechanism for PCI Express devices to garner power savings while otherwise in a fully active state. Predominantly, this is achieved through active-state link power management; i.e., the PCI Express serial link is powered down when there is no traffic across it.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring.
Wake-on-LAN can, however, operate across any network in practice, given appropriate configuration and hardware, including remote wake-up across the Internet. In order for Wake-on-LAN to work, parts of the network interface need to stay on. This consumes a small amount of standby power. To further reduce power consumption, the link speed is ...
In Windows, this can be configured to enter one of the "sleeping modes", i.e. "suspend to RAM" (with fast wake up by pressing any key) or "suspend to disk" (i.e. hibernation, where waking up will require pressing the power button, restoring all running applications in their current running state), or to shutdown the PC completely (closing all ...
Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. 42: Windows cannot run the driver for this device because there is a duplicate device already running in the system. 43: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. 44: An application or service has shut down this hardware ...
The new button replaces the show desktop shortcut located in the Quick Launch toolbar in previous versions of Windows. [30] On touch-based devices, Aero Peek can be initiated by pressing and holding the show desktop button; touching the button itself shows the desktop. The button also increases in width to accommodate being pressed by a finger ...