Both are set up to display a screen saver (3 D Pipes) 5 minutes before going to sleep, allowing me to abort the sleep if I want to continue working, by moving the mouse or hitting any key - those actions reset the sleep timer to zero.
The laptop also goes to sleep when the lid is closed.
The two are connected on a WiFi network that also includes a printer and a smartphone.įor quite a long time now both have been set up to sleep after a period of inactivity - 1 hr for the desktop, 25 minutes for the laptop. Both are running Windows 10 (Pro on the desktop, Home on the laptop), Version 21H1, build 19043.1288. Laptop computer: similar vintage Dell Inspiron 15R 5537, gen 4 mobile Intel i7 CPU (2 cores, 4 threads 1.8 GHz), 12 GB RAM, "I TB" HDD. Desktop computer: Dell XPS 8700, mfr date, gen 4 Intel i7 CPU (4 cores, 8 threads 3.60 GHz), 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA graphics w/ 4 GB RAM, "I TB" HDD.