Missing sleep option in the power menu in Windows 10? When you click the Start button, then click the Power icon (or click the arrow next to shut down), you might find the Sleep option is missing or greyed out. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to fix the issue: Sleep option missing in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 Power menu.
Method 1: Enable Sleep Mode in Control Panel
Method 2: Enable Sleep Mode Using Group Policy
Method 3: Turn on Connected Standby (InstantGo)
InstantGo (previously called Connected Standby) is a smart feature in Windows 10/8 that allows your PC to maintain network connectivity when your screen is off in sleep mode. However, Any attempt to disable InstantGo may likely disable the regular Standby/Sleep mode too, as most devices supporting Connected Standby does not support traditional sleep options.
If you’ve disabled InstantGo, you have to turn it on again. Follow these steps:
Method 4: Install the Latest Display Driver
If your system is using the generic display driver, the Sleep option might also disappear from the Power Options menu. You need to download and install latest display driver from the manufacturers website.
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The settings for the notification area in Windows 7 have three options:
Well here is my problem. I have a misbehaving application that doesn't have any settings to turn off notifications. And it keeps nagging me to update itself even though I know that the next version is not running properly. I do not want to see the reminder notification popup at all. But after all the application have some useful options that I use daily to perform tasks. These are accessible from the notification area/system tray.
I would like to silence the application by setting the option to something like:
or
Otherwise I am forced to use the option 'Hide icon and notifications' which makes me have to use at least one more mouse click every time I use the application.
A small problem in the great scheme of things.. but very annoying (to me at least).
Is there any way to make the notification area behave like this?
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As mentioned elsewhere, this is not how the Notification area is designed to operate. Notifications are its raison d'être, so being able to turn them off would be counter to the design goals of the system.
What it seems you really want to do is use it to open the program and don't care about notifications. For an equivalent solution, I would try something like this:
This should work. I don't know the particular program you are struggling with, but those that I use often will not launch a new instance using this method, but open the existing instance. I believe that the program would have to instruct Windows specifically to not do this, though what mechanism that utilizes and whether this is true at all, is something I am not intimately familiar with.
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Separate answer for a completely different tactic: you can disable balloon notifications for all notification area icons using local Group Policy. As HowToGeek explains,
I would not recommend this, as Windows occasionally uses these balloons for useful messages (your hard disk is failing, your battery is about to run out, etc.) — disabling the updates for your particular program is a much cleaner solution.
supervacuosupervacuo
You haven't told us which program (or even what kind of program it is!), so your mileage may vary, but how about:
If your application 'helpfully' remembers the presence of an update from the last time it was able to contact the update server, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the old version with the
hosts file blocking in place to prevent it seeing the new download.
supervacuosupervacuo
This is not possible in the current Windows design. The notification bar was specifically designed to show notifications - the status quo of applications installing themselves here to show that they are still alive is the incorrect behaviour (they should be in the taskbar, not the notification bar).
But then it seems we're asking the wrong question. Why would you possibly want to not update? Updates can be protecting you from security vulnerabilities that could be used to compromise your machine. If it's your home machine they'll take your credit card details, and if it's your company one they'll take your company's IPR or your customer's credit card details (remember: 2 in 3 SMEs that get hacked go out of business within a year).
It seems to me that the best way to stop the application nagging you to update is probably to update the application.
SecurityMattSecurityMatt
i would go with the 'Hide icon and notifications' option, and eliminate that extra mouse click by adding a shortcut to launch the program, right click the program's shortcut and add some key combination
CharlyCharly
If you stated the name of the program someone might have been able to tell you exactly how to achieve this. As it is, all anyone can do is speculate.
I would focus my efforts into disabling update notifications in the application itself. Every application I have seen with an updater has this option.
This is where I would start as it would offer the most elegant solution.
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Windows 7 Speaker Icon Missing
I installed Visual Studio 2012 yesterday and during the install my path somehow got screwed up1. Since then, the icons for applications that are part of Windows are the default 'unknown' icon, but other icons are fine. The applications that the shortcuts link to launch fine when the icons are clicked on.
Windows 7 Update Icon Missing
Taskbar:
Start Menu:
I have fixed my path, but the icons still show incorrectly.
Any ideas on how to flush what appears to be a set of cached icons?
1Something took a path of A;B;C;D; and turned it into A;B;C;D;A;B;C;D;E;F; - duplicating a large part of it to that point that no more characters were available to type in the edit box in system properties. Full movie download sites. This had the side-effect of Windows reporting that it couldn't find %windir%.
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I have solved the icon issue by:
Now you should be able to see the restored icons.
Mario NeubauerMario Neubauer
for me the pin and unpin function of the taskbar did the trick
Hans WurstHans Wurst
I eventually solved this by following the advice given here, although not the advice in the article but the advice in one of the comments:
change momentarily the screen color depth to 16 bits, for example, and, when Windows asks you whether you want to keep the changes or not, click 'No' to restore the original settings.
The advice in the main body of the article (about changing the view hidden folders and files setting) didn't work.
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I think that loosing the icons is only one of the symptoms of a broader problem, which is that the PATH variable gets messed up. See the following discussion on the VisualStudio forum. The problem seems to be caused by an excesively long
PATH variable.
Daniel GehrigerDaniel Gehriger
I right-clicked on the item with the missing icon and chose properties. In the properties dialog box I clicked to change the icon. I changed the icon (for example, from the main program icon to the document icon for that program) and pressed OK (I had to have administrator rights to confirm). I then repeated the process to change the icon back, at which point the icon was now visible.
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