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[Bear56]

I have the power options set to sleep when I close the lid but it does nothing when I close it

[Vince53]

Bear, a have a similar problem with my desktop. Although I can turn it off or put it to sleep with a key on the keyboard, I cannot wake it with the wake key or by moving my mouse. I have set it to let the mouse wake it and it doesn't work.

It turns out that my hardware does not support those two functions, even though I have set them with Windows. So I just have to use my Power On button to get it out of sleep.

I would advise you to install a free program that puts a sleep button on your monitor, or else set it to go to sleep after a few minutes with no activity.

[b9chris]

This is more of a Win8 issue in general than an Aspire R7 issue - usually - although interestingly I have the inverse problem (my machine used to sleep when i closed it and never, ever wake up), so perhaps this is R7-specific.

In any case the important first step is to notice that sleep behavior is in many places in Win8.1. There are basic sleep settings in the "Charms" (swipe in from the right, tap the gear icon, notice the random Change PC Settings text buried at the bottom right, tap that, PC and devices, Power and Sleep).

There's a lot more in Control Panel, Power. For one, the plans your eye jumps to have a bunch of settings buried in Advanced that you should take note of. But there's also "Change what closing the lid does" buried over on the left, that's easy to notice. It's most important to ensure that's set to what you intended if you want this to work properly. Notice that this is set twice, once for battery, once for plugged in - even if you didn't ask for that complexity.