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Questions tagged [idle]

A computer on idle not being used by the user or programs.

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Windows 10 Display Won't Sleep/Turn Off (Tried Everything!)

There are many posts about the display not sleeping when idle. It will not turn off after inactivity, neither from the desktop, nor from the lock screen. I've tried everything!? This is on a PC (not laptop) running Windows 10 Pro. Power & sleep…
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System Idle Process is Sending JPEG Keepalives

I was running a test using wireshark to torch some traffic. I saw quite a bit of traffic on localhost. Further investigation showed the following issue: I am seeing a HTTP GET request about every second that requests a JPEG called…
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Why idle power usage is much higher under linux than macos on the same, intel-based macbook?

Recently I switched from macos to linux on a mid 2014 8GB retina macbook pro. I noticed when I just edit text files in vi running in terminal, the battery runs out about twice as fast on linux. Top and powertop shows minimal CPU and no GPU…
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Windows 10 Desktop PC will not go to sleep automatically based on set idle timer no matter what I try. What else can I try?

I have a Windows 10 Desktop PC I built recently with all new parts, Windows is fully updated, as are all drivers, BIOS, etc. I had a problem with my PC waking up from sleep randomly at night, and then staying on all night, so I disabled all possible…
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Run exe when computer is inactive for some time

Following an advice given to me in this question I have made this question. So I have an exe I want to run after the computer is idle (by idle I don’t mean sleep, I mean inactive or not being used) for sometime lets say 30 mins. Once the “inactive”…
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A Slack message was sent out during the time when Eventviewer logs show the computer was on sleep mode. Is it possible?

Could anyone please advise me? Using my computer, a Slack message was sent out at the time stamped during the time when Event viewer logs show the computer was on sleep mode. Is it possible? If it is, how? The computer was on sleep mode due to…
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Python IDLE not opening when I double click on python scripts on macOS Big Sur

I am trying to run a script with IDLE in Python version 3.9.5. When I have IDLE open and I open the script with File > Open... it successfully opens the script. Likewise, when running IDLE3.9 from the terminal, I can successfully open the file.…
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Laptop with External Monitor and lid closed wont idle or sleep

I have a Windows 10 laptop and I use it as a desktop at times with a external monitor connected via HDMI. When i work on the computer with the lid closed the computer never goes to sleep at the specified time. Also it doesnt even idle as my Skype…
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Windows screen idle turns off and directly on again

I have a very annoying issue with my monitors. After the idle time specified in windows power management, my two displays turn off, but directly turn on again, preventing the monitors from entering screen saving mode completely and being turned on…
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Task scheduler On Idle task not triggered Windows 7

I've used Task scheduler and created a new task, added a trigger, set it to event: on Idle and created the task. In the conditionstab, specified the task waits 1min to become idle (instead of 10min just to test). But then I wait for more than 10mins…
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How to create an scheduled task at startup with the extra condition that no user logins after some specific minutes?

I know how to create Windows scheduled tasks that runs after that computer is idle for some minutes/hours. But my question is different. I want to create a task after startup that computer is idle before a user logins. More precisely, I want to…
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RHEL 7.x machine with very low CPU idle + how to set idle threshold

we have cluster of RHEL 7.9 machines, we are using this server as kafka client producers. each machine have the following spec (DELL physical machines) 48 CORES 128G memory on most machines we saw very low %idle ( from sar command ) and values are…
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Windows screen saver and screen power off not working

The situation is the following. In my Windows 10 (22H2), the screensaver is not engaging, and neither does the system power off the screen after the set amount of time. After lots of searching online, I used this script to check for idle. I…
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CPU Doesn't Go Below 5.5 watts on idle

I recently updated my laptop  (i7-6700HQ, 8gb ram) from Windows home 1703 to Windows Pro 2004 and now on idle my CPU will rest at 5.5 watts and temperatures mid/high 40s. On Windows 1703 it would be idle at 0.3 watts and low/mid 30s. Now the thing…
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How to keep audio driver from idle using PowerShell or Registry Editor?

There's a well-known software bug in Windows and macOS audio driver's of Apple's laptops released since 2019: a random pop or popping sound during media playback and a pop sound when media is stopped/paused (i.e. see 2019 and 2017). On 2019 16-inch…
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