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If your current power plan is set to Balanced, several devices are allowed to go into a low power states which can sometimes cause issues. If you disable Sleep and still have issues on Balanced, try changing to High performance. You will use a little more power but devices which might be causing an issue are typically told to just stay on

Hibernation

Disabling Hibernation is even easier. You do not want to do this if you have a laptop as Hibernation is essential when a laptop’s battery loses charge and the system needs to safely save it’s state. If you have a laptop skip disabling Hibernation and instead disable Fast Startup and Hybrid Sleep if you are having issues.

To disable Hibernation:

• The first step is to run the command prompt as administrator. In Windows 10, you can do this by right clicking on the start menu and clicking “Command Prompt (Admin)”
• Type in “powercfg.exe /h off” without the quotes and press enter. If you typed it in correctly, the cursor will simply start at a new line asking for new input
• Now just exit out of command prompt

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If you have a laptop as I mentioned above you do not want to disable Hibernation. You can instead disable two aspects of it which may be causing you problems. These two aspects are Fast Startup and Hybrid Sleep. Fast Startup combines Hibernate and shutdown, while Hybrid Sleep combines Sleep and Hibernation. Both of those can cause problems with shutting down or Sleeping.

To disable Fast Startup: (does not apply if you have disabled Hibernation)

• Open up Power Options in the Control Panel. In Windows 10 you can get there from right clicking on the start menu and going to Power Options
• Once there, on the left hand side, click “Choose what the power buttons do
• Click “change settings that are currently unavailable” up at the top
• Down below under the “Shutdown Settings” section you will see “Fast Startup” check-boxed. Uncheck the box
• Click OK

 

 

To disable Hybrid Sleep: (does not apply if you have disabled Sleep or Hibernation)

• Open up Power Options in the Control Panel. In Windows 10 you can get there from right clicking on the start menu and going to Power Options
• Click “change plan settings” next to your current power plan
• Click “change advanced power settings”
• Click the + sign next to “Sleep”
• Click the + sign next to “Allow hybrid sleep” and change setting to “off”
• Click OK

 

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