Need help with computer timing out.

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(06-16-2018, 10:17 AM)sallyanne Wrote: Goes to sleep (black screen) on me if I look away for a minute or go for a walk. Wasn't doing it a week ago. I have changed power options to never and back to 60 mins etc. Watched a couple of YouTube vids, done a hack and it is still doing it.
I went to the windows page but you have to register there to ask a question!

I think my pc updated again a couple days ago because when I went to shut it down I only had the option of 'update and shut down' so I put it on hibernate. (I figure it updated during the day while on hibernate because the option is not there any more).

Someone mentioned to stop windows from forcing updates on you. How do I do that?


Any way I assume it is my OS that is the problem not my computer?

Many things can happen in Windows, including malware. Do you have some kind of antivirus running? Any unexpected CPU or disk activity?

One thing you can do is boot a Live USB disk of some Linux distro and see if the same thing happens then (and perhaps you'll discover that Linux isn't that bad and keep it .