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Question posted by supbigm on March 19th, 2014

Xps Won't Come Out Of Sleep, Have To Do A Complete Shut Down

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Answer #1: Posted by waelsaidani1 on March 19th, 2014 2:24 AM

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Please follow the below steps:

Open Control Panel, click System and Security, and then click Power Options.
On the Select a power plan page, click Change plan settings for the plan that you want to change.
On the Change settings for the plan page, click Change advanced power settings.
On the Advance settings tab, expand Hard disk, expand Turn off hard disk after and set it to “Never”.
On the Advance settings tab expand Sleep, expand Allow Hybrid Sleep, and choose OFF.
On the Advanced settings tab, expand Sleep, expand Allow wake timers, choose Disable for both when your computer is running on battery and when it's plugged in, and then click OK.
On the Advanced settings tab, expand USB settings, under USB settings expand USB selective suspend settings, choose Disable.
Click Apply and then OK to save the changes.

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