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How to disable power to USB ports when laptop is in sleep mode
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Mar 15, 202649772 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a Windows7 laptop with two external 2.5" HDDs and a cooling pad connected through USB ports. When I put the laptop to sleep, these devices are still powered on - the fan in the cooling pad is still spinning, the drives are still spinning. I want to set it all up so that they power down when …
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Fix for: How to disable power to USB ports when laptop is in sleep mode
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Refer to this answer by goosmurf2 on the Lenovo Support Forum, which worked for me: Within Windows, I found I had to do two things to make my USB ports power down in sleep/standby mode: For each USB hub, I ticked "Allow the computer to turn off this…
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