Somebody obviously wasn’t thinking when they set the default power options in Windows. I have been setting up new desktops and laptops from Dell the last few days, and every single one has the power options set like this:
This is from a Dell laptop. Why would anybody in there right mind want the laptop to go into standby in 25 minutes if it is plugged in. For that matter, why would they wait 1 hour while it is on battery. And all the desktops are set up like this too! Why anybody would want to have their desktop computer go into standby is beyond me. I keep my computer turned on, so I can have stuff running on it while I am away, and so that when I need to get to it I can without having to wait for it to come up. Standby defeats that. And hibernate is even worse.
While I’m on a rant, why would Dell disable the internal nic when the laptop is on battery power? That gave me the biggest headache one morning a while back. I even went so far as to call Dell to see if the motherboard was bad, cause the nic kept disappearing.
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