Windows 10: Long Term Power Problems - Its been over an year

I have observed the following problems over one year of span of time.

And yes, before you pitch in your idea of "change your power setting" "change your wake timing" "see your bios" etc.

I have done tried it all, from advance power management to even sleep settings, if this is a recurring event for you you know its no longer your settings or device's fault. its windows !!


1. Randomly Waking up after sleep and this is the most annoying one: After few seconds of sleep my laptop/desktop wakes up without any mouse movement/ keyboard or any event at all.


2. Computer Turns on Or Restarts after a Shut Down: Most of the times i find the operations to be quite confused between what a shut down is like or if there is any update windows will restart without considering the option that it was to be shut down, then when come by next day to find out it was running the whole night sitting idle.


3.Failure to Wake up upon opening laptop flap: happens only on my laptop, once went to sleep after a long time cannot wake up if i open the flap , only a cursor like ms-dos is shown on top left. and the laptop is in Hung state. Cannot do anything I have to lose all my data after forcefully having to press the power button


4. Very Specific to on garage tools Mouse without Borders if anyone has used it : The mouse suddenly stop working between two terminals or disappears or goes out of order completely being still . This is a nightmare specially when working on long duration tasks


5. Auto Save does not save: When restarting automatically for updates the autosaved file which you are working on PowerPoint, word etc. does not save at all because there are so many updates which are happening in between that you cannot be sure which version you are working on and which is which. Either:

A fix it to make the updates work in the background so that restarting is not always an option.

OR,

B wait for user to finish the task act intelligently, not all of us are going to change the schedule timings ,we have work to do not comply to your updates.


6. Cortana cannot search for installed apps name shows web results: why is there then? Isn't this its basic task?


Long and short of it, I feel these issues were just an update related but when it is still going on, and people are experiencing it ,I am not sure how are people ok with this, these are some very basic issues which has been prevailing for more than 2 years now. How on earth don't you have a fix for it? Really that is what you want system to be sitting idle.

Sometimes when I pack my bags from my office and laptop suddenly wakes from sleep randomly burns itself out due to heat drains battery. And then the laptop skin feels completely hot, when i turn on it says it was shut down last time due to overheating. I am worried about my devices health due to this now. This has happened like 100 times now in the last couple of years. Everyone cannot just comply to your power plans. You need to fix it man.

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Long term charging issue

Not to take over this thread, but thanks for the command for the battery report. My battery is 7 years old, this confirms the poor performance lately!

 

Long term charging issue

I also have a computer [a Chuwi tablet-with-keyboard] that reports its battery Full Charge Capacity being greater than its Design Capacity. My conclusion is that the designer / production engineer fiddled things and that I can therefore not rely on any data about the battery.

You seem to be in the same boat.

Unless you have kept the computer on AC power for the whole time, your battery will have worn out to some extent.
Even if you have kept the computer on AC power for the whole time, your battery may have worn out to some extent anyway [my own battery records vary from year to year and I cannot pin down a reliable result for this case].

I do not think that you are shutting your computer down at night. Your description matches hibernation / sleep rather than shutdown.
- A computer that has been shutdown has no mechanism except the power button for being turned on.
- You can investigate shutdown / sleep / hibernate records using Event viewer.
- As an initial step, check Control panel, Security & maintenance, Maintenance, Automatic maintenance - Change maintenance settings, clear the checkbox for Allow scheduled maintenance to wake my computer at the scheduled time.

I do not have any well-thought-through advice for you, only generalisations.

- Your description of your computer's power behaviour does sound to me like an insufficient power supply so I think it worth checking, if possible, that your power source [including the cable] is working correctly. My own tablet's one produces over 3Amps output current and the maker says that anything less than would mean that it could run the computer but would not charge at the same time. You report your charging current as 2 Amps; is that from your specs?
- I've seen threads in which people have said they solved some power/battery problems by removing the Device manager, Battery entries then letting Windows re-detect and reinstall them. The implication being that they must have had drivers that had become corrupted. Before adopting such a solution yourself, I'd suggest searching the forum for battery problems to see if there is any comparison between their cases and yours. Removing drivers for less well-supported computer brands such as ours is more tense than it is for mainstream ones. I understand that Cube support is very limited but, again, I'm just going by what I've read. [Chuwi support is shameful, they cannot even get their hardware list right]- Perhaps you should get an external powerbank. I have one that can keep my tablet going for as long as its own battery can. Powerbanks come in all sizes [and weights]. I got, for example only, www.amazon.co.uk/12000mah-External-Portable-Powerful-Flashlight/dp/B01ECRJWVE and I am happy with it. It is light enough to put in my pocket when I'm on the train so I can just keep the powerbank plugged in to the computer if I use it en route.
- You could play around with the Power plan battery settings to see if you can find a critical battery level that is high enough to ensure you can reach hibernation when your battery starts sulking. But, from your description, you are too far gone for this to be any real use.

Denis

 

File Format for Long-term Data Storage, Burning of Blu-Ray M-Discs

The conventional thought is that when you store data for long-term storage, you convert the data into a format that will last for decades. It should be in NTFS or FAT and file formats that will be around in decades.

For example, they do not recommend that files should be left in docx (Word format) because you don't now if Microsoft will be around 10 years from now. They suggest that formats such as txt.

HOWEVER, I have most of my documents in Microsoft Word and Excel. And, the formatting of the document is actually really important to me. It allows readability of the document. If it's all in the same regular text, it makes it much harder to read.

What do you people suggest that I should do? I want to burn my long-term files but what format do you recommend that I should save it in on my blu-ray M-discs?