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Windows 7 sleeping during operations

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Mar 15, 20267463 views
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I've got Windows 7 set up on my media box. It's set to sleep after 30 mins of inactivity, but it doesn't seem to work as advertised. In the last two weeks it's gone to sleep during a file copy operation and again while encoding an MP4 file. Is there any way to get Windows to realise that it's actua…

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Fix for: Windows 7 sleeping during operations

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The inactivity timer is user inactivity, not system inactivity. If it was based on the system, it would never sleep since services wake up to run their jobs, scheduled tasks may run, your anti-virus may make a background scan. You'll notice that Win…

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