How to set 'snooze' on a Toshiba laptop

17 years ago

I am teaching my 74 year old bother in law the basics of computing. He has a Toshiba laptop with Vista. He is recovering from a stroke and progress is very slow, we have not quite conquered creating an email in 12 weeks of 5 days each and about an hour per day depending on his ability to concentrate to give you an idea. As he is in the UK and I am in Canada I use Skype to communicate and Teamviewer to oversee his moves which works brilliantly.

However, our problem is his computer completely shuts down after X minutes of inactivity rather than going into snooze mode and I cannot contact him. Not owning a laptop I am reluctant to change settings on his machine without some guidance in case I mess up. Then he would not be able to correct things and neither would I.

I am good with right click Desktop, click Properties/Screensaver/Power, it is from there on I need guidance please so that I can 'wake' his computer when necessary.

Any help or comments greatly appreciated.

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zep516
17 years ago
What options are present in the (power options) in the control panel I'd look there if you have not

Start>controlpanel>power options.
mikie_gw
17 years ago
My Toshiba has Sleep mode after x minutes which powers it down completely except for a small voltage & holding current to hold desktop settings in memory ... and requires you to push the power on button to restart.

Additionally - Hibernate works similar except writes the desktop to a file on the hard drive before shutting down. But if recall, hibernate isn't activated on my Toshiba.. you have to manually set it up to work. So its an option.

Perhaps -- You maybe might set his sleep to never and set his screen saver to blank the display after x minutes. Then provided you're still in your sharing mode, perhaps you can wake it with mouse or keyboard.

Also - If its a wired nic you might try going into device manager and enable wake on LAN. But I don't think he'll be happy with that on a home network. If it ever actually hears nothing and sleeps, it will most likely wake up unexpectedly at odd times.
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Sleep & Hibernate work perfect on Vista here. Think most Vista comps it works well on.
Hibernate uses a huge chunk of disk area(matches 3gb mem here) to defrag or virus scan though.
owbist
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate that.

So do I understand that apart from checking out the 'Wake on LAN' feature that is the way it is? If so I have no problem, it was just that at times when I am not at my computer and he calls 6 to 7 times then gives up I feel he may lose interest. That was when I would like to call him back so he does not get despondent. As he almost always calls between 10.10 and 10.20 every morning my time I had better start rising a little earlier to get a few chores done so I can be here regularly, ha ha.

At least I have found and had him bookmark a couple of interesting live webcams including one on a Bald Eagle's nest where the chicks hatched a couple of days ago so perhaps he will go online more to check out the birds. Then I might be able to 'find' him and make contact. Hopefully those kind of sites might stick in his mind better so he can become more comfortable with and understand the simpler concepts of computing. Once we get there then the sky is the limit.

Thanks again for the help.

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