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Metspitzer
Flightless Bird
I have a Dell laptop that came with Vista with a free Win7 upgrade.
I mainly use my laptop when I go to the doctor. I have to have labs
done, and then wait an hour and a half for results before I see the
doctor. I also have to move from one area of the hospital to another
twice.
It is nice that during the moving time I can close the laptop and then
have it right back up when I move. Because my battery dies when I
leave the laptop for a few days, I changed some of the settings. I
still don't have the right ones.
I would like to have my laptop "wake up" quickly if I open it again
within say 20 min (sleep?). I would also like to have it save my
settings for an hour (hibernate?) to give me another chance to open it
during the day. Then, I would like to have it shut down completely if
I don't use it for say 3 hours. (shutdown)
The guy at Dell says that I can't do this. He says that I have to
manually set the computer to shutdown to keep the battery from dying.
I am guessing that many people use their laptops this way and I just
have a setting wrong. Do you have to manually shut down?
I mainly use my laptop when I go to the doctor. I have to have labs
done, and then wait an hour and a half for results before I see the
doctor. I also have to move from one area of the hospital to another
twice.
It is nice that during the moving time I can close the laptop and then
have it right back up when I move. Because my battery dies when I
leave the laptop for a few days, I changed some of the settings. I
still don't have the right ones.
I would like to have my laptop "wake up" quickly if I open it again
within say 20 min (sleep?). I would also like to have it save my
settings for an hour (hibernate?) to give me another chance to open it
during the day. Then, I would like to have it shut down completely if
I don't use it for say 3 hours. (shutdown)
The guy at Dell says that I can't do this. He says that I have to
manually set the computer to shutdown to keep the battery from dying.
I am guessing that many people use their laptops this way and I just
have a setting wrong. Do you have to manually shut down?