Windows 7 Power Plan Settings

I have upgraded from Windows 7 Beta to RC over the weekend, since I’ve done that, I have noticed that every morning, my computer is hibernating, even though one of the first things I changed in my laptop’s settings was the power plant to look like:



My laptop was always plugged in, so I thought could the power be disconnecting causing this? When I wake up, I could see that the power was on and the laptop was fully charged.

Yesterday, I finally had time to check why this happens!

It turns out that it’s not enough to change these settings! There is another setting that I personally never had to change before, so I would assume it’s a new one!

You’ll have to go and click “Change advanced power settings”



Once the new window opens, expand the Sleep node. You’ll find settings for Sleep After, Allow hybrid sleep, Hibernate after and Allow wake up timers. The setting relevant here is the Hibernate after!



As you can see this was set to hibernate after 360 minutes. I changed that to Never (or 0 minutes) and now my computer is up when I wake up. My laptop sleeps when I want to, not when Micros0ft wants to :)



You would assume that they would allow you to change this setting in the power plan settings control panel. Please do this Microsoft before the RTM.

sk8er boi