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Adjust power button behaviour?

Anonymous
2014-08-31T14:00:50+00:00

When I press the power button on my new Surface Pro 3, it shuts itself down. To me this is an odd behaviour. I've had other tablets before and all of them just blanked the screen on the power-button. Is there any way to adjust this behaviour? If I set the Surface aside for a minute and know I will use it again right away, I don't want it to shut down. Especially since I'm plagued by the apparently well-known WiFi-bug. After reboot, I have to disconnect and reconnect my WiFi, otherwise the internet connection doesnt work.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-01T20:00:49+00:00

    Thanks @all for your input. To illustrate what I mean, I made this short very unprofessional video. It shows what behaviour I'm used to on my Envy X2. When I press the power button, it comes back on again instantly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISzzFyolXTs&feature=youtu.be

    adsant, thanks a lot, you brought me straight to the root of my question. In the power button settings on my Surface Pro 3 I have two choices: sleep and shutdown. There's a third option on my envy called "energy saving" (I'm translating from German to English here, the exact English name might be different). This option makes the Envy behave like it does. It's not available on the Surface Pro 3. So I guess my question is: Why? Is it only available on Atom-devices like the Envy?

    Ok I the power button in the start screen, do you see an option to Sleep?

    If yes, check this:

    Also, if you installed Visual Studio you should know this. 

    Could you run this command:

    powercfg /a

    And post the screenshot of the results here?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-01T22:08:24+00:00

    Check out the YouTube video link -- shows the behavior of my SP3 which I believe matches your Envy -- you'll note that my SP3 is joined to a business domain which requires password (I use a picture password) for unlocking from sleep, but other than that it is the same.  

    That is indeed the behavior I wanted like to achieve. Thx a lot for your efforts. Guess I will have to deativate Hyper-V as Citanic pointed out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-12T11:16:21+00:00

    This is really helpful, thanks sorted my issues:

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