Comuter shut down too soon when not in use.

My computer shuts down temporality in just a few minutes when not in use. How can I change the time to a different setting?

Can you please post this type of question over at
http://answers.microsoft.com/? This would be the appropriate location.
Thanks!
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Should I shut down my computer when not in use

should I shut down my computer when not in use, overnight for instance?

Hello! Leaving it on 24/7/365 is perfectly acceptable. You may save some electricity but personally I think you'll pay for it with a more troublesome system. I do however set the monitors to go to sleep. I like the no startup lag time of running 24/7/365. That said, if I lived in an area prone to electrical outages or if my location was prone to lightening strikes I'd probably shut it down and unplugged. Of course with it being unplugged the pram battery may run down. These old G4's have been running 24/7/365 for years now. I do try to restart every few weeks just for good measure! In the end it's your preference. The hardware works best when a constant temperature is maintained. Tom

IMac (Oct 2009) keeps shutting down and restarting when not being used.

At least once a day, usually when not being used, I will see a dialog box that say computer had to restart due to a problem. data in problem report does not clearly state problem - many multi-page entries
Have reinstalled OS 10.8.2 once
this morning tried to restart with safe boot and had spinning beach ball for more than 15 minutes. shut down and restarted nin recovery mode. verified and repaired permissions (all seem to be related to Canon Pronter plug-ins- had an error message yesteday asking if I wanted to repair printer software and I said yes). Printer seems to be working. Had one statement that indicated a screensaver issue-see below
a while back, iTunes album art screensaver hung up with just two album covers flipping in all rows and columns.
after a few restarts, it started working correctly again..- yesterday I set screen saver to never, but still had a crash this morning

Here's the latest panic report. BTW, I ran for a while from an external system boot - very sloww (thumbdrive), but nothing happened. However, when I retarted I tried to restart in Safe Mode and the launch never completed (30 minutes without start)
Tue Jan 1 07:15:40 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8002443908): "zalloc: \"buf.8192\" (878 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:1826
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff800aafb2b0 : 0xffffff800241d626
0xffffff800aafb320 : 0xffffff8002443908
0xffffff800aafb400 : 0xffffff80024de8d8
0xffffff800aafb450 : 0xffffff80024de395
0xffffff800aafb500 : 0xffffff80024dd64b
0xffffff800aafb530 : 0xffffff80024dd7f7
0xffffff800aafb550 : 0xffffff80026e7766
0xffffff800aafb5c0 : 0xffffff800272024c
0xffffff800aafb5e0 : 0xffffff8002721314
0xffffff800aafb680 : 0xffffff800271d2a0
0xffffff800aafb790 : 0xffffff800271959c
0xffffff800aafb840 : 0xffffff800271936a
0xffffff800aafb8c0 : 0xffffff80025137df
0xffffff800aafb910 : 0xffffff8002509fe1
0xffffff800aafb950 : 0xffffff800252685c
0xffffff800aafba00 : 0xffffff8002526679
0xffffff800aafba30 : 0xffffff8002712518
0xffffff800aafbaa0 : 0xffffff8002511c46
0xffffff800aafbae0 : 0xffffff800250936c
0xffffff800aafbb90 : 0xffffff80024fbb49
0xffffff800aafbc40 : 0xffffff80024fc314
0xffffff800aafbf50 : 0xffffff80027e182a
0xffffff800aafbfb0 : 0xffffff80024ced33
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker
Mac OS version:
12C60
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel slide:     0x0000000002200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8002400000
System model name: iMac10,1 (Mac-F2268DC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 39390380895329
vm objects:17562048
vm object hash entri:2264400
VM map entries:6216720
pv_list:19034112
vm pages:74043792
kalloc.32:1826816
kalloc.64:170766336
kalloc.128:649785344
kalloc.256:648183808
kalloc.512:2285568
kalloc.1024:2637824
kalloc.4096:2387968
kalloc.8192:3989504
ipc ports:2168672
threads:1166880
vnodes:16507128
namecache:6952320
HFS node:21840864
HFS fork:6352896
decmpfs_cnode:2244312
buf.8192:7192576
ubc_info zone:3559464
vnode pager structur:1978800
Kernel Stacks:1982464
PageTables:44011520
Kalloc.Large:12347186
Backtrace suspected of leaking: (outstanding bytes: 236544)
0xffffff80024435b9
0xffffff80024245ed
0xffffff80027ee1bd
0xffffff80028507f7
0xffffff800285075b
0xffffff7f82b6b1ac
0xffffff7f82b72922
0xffffff7f82ab138b
0xffffff7f82ab49b0
0xffffff7f829f843c
0xffffff800243dcde
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         com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.5.1)[4CCC048B-060B-3C07-8D85-A8 4CEA02CD25]@0xffffff7f829f2000->0xffffff7f82a1cfff
         com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.5.1)[E4EAAA05-F607-3299-AE72-998D19 A5EA17]@0xffffff7f82aae000->0xffffff7f82ac3fff
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            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.5.1)[E4EAAA05-F607-3299-AE72-998D19 A5EA17]@0xffffff7f82aae000
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Hp envy phoenix 810 shuts down by itself when not in use

I purchased a HP Envy Phoenix 810 December 2013 and use Windows 8 365 on it. This is a home computer and is used for general purposes - no gameing, etc. It will just shut itself down when we are not using it for awhile, but not on a consistent basis. For example, early Sunday it had shut itself down sometime, I started it in the morning, and twice more it shut itself down through the day. I finally turned it back on Monday afternoon, and it stayed on through the evening and night, and it was still on Tuesday morning. I can't seem to find a pattern to when it decides to shut down. I've run Norton, Malwarebytes, Superantivirus and haven't found anything. I have the same computer & software (Norton, Microsoft 365) at work and haven't had a problems with it. I've updated it with HP's updates. Any suggestions?

Usually when a computer shuts down it is because of an overheat problem but doubtful it it is a idle. Be sure that it is no near any heat source and that the fans are clean with no obstructions and use a can of air to clean the inside of the computer.
Another cause is the power supply, either the PSU is faultering or the wall socket may be getting some interupts. Worth checking out.
Have a look at your power settings in the Control Panel, see this site:
http://www.troubleshootwindows.com/windows-8/fix-windows-8-shutdown-restarts-if-left-idle/
Please mark my post as SOLVED if it has resolved your problem. It helps others with similar situations.

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I should be able to tell these HDs to chill till I call on them right ? thanks for any help[ you can offer me .
cheers R

You don't. You have no control over the spin rate of any hard drive.
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Shuts down too early

I just phoned up apple technical support and asked if i could get a repair.
I explained my problem to them. It shuts down too early, when the battery gets from about a half to a third full, it can just randonly shut down even though there is enough power left in it. It will turn on and play again if you reset it about 6 billion times.
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what apple saying is that if i get 9 hours and then it swithes off after that even though the battery isn't really empty, this is a fully working ipod.
Okay. That makes good sense.
when the battery gets from about a half to a third full,
You really mean that when the
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highly accurate
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battery meter shows 1/2 to 1/3.
get over 9 hours of continous playback from my ipod but then if it switches off early
If you are getting 9 hours it is NOT switching off early. It is switching off early if it gets less than ~5 hours.

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Do the following:
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My menu bar does not appear at the top of my homepage on a brand new 27" iMac only when i pull up an app. this does not allow me to shut down my mac when all apps are closed nor does it all me to use finder. any help would be awesome

Press the escape (esc) key to exit full-screen mode.

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Hello, I am running Mac os 10.6.8. It is shutting down without warning when I walk away from the computer for about 5 minutes. It happened twice. It was not asleep, i had to turn the computer back on...Any ideas...
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Crashes
The next time the problem happens, note the date and time the problem occurred, then go to Applications/Utilities/Console and copy the log starting at the time of the crash. Paste the log in a reply. Please do not use a screen shot as they can be hard to read. If there are repeated runs of the same messages, please post only one run. Be selective about what you post and don’t post huge amounts. Make sure there is no personal data visible. Information learned from Linc Davis.

My computer had to be shut down this morning when I could move my mouse around but it would not respond when I double clicked on an item to select. Now I cannot open a file in my finder window by double clicking on it. Any suggestions?

My computer had to be shut down this morning when I could move my mouse around but it would not respond when I double clicked on an item to select. Now I cannot open a file in my finder window by double clicking on it. Any suggestions?

Did you reinstall CS3 after CC?
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And you shouldn't need to save as IDML after opening the .inx in CC.

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How can I get firefox to shut down automatically when not in use for an hour

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Mac OSX 10.6.8 Should I keep it in sleep mode when not in use to shut down?

My experience with electronic tends to revolve around thermo stress, and removing all power vs going to sleep tends to be more or less the same. Many components have power totally taken away, and others use so little power they cool off.
However, I found thermo stress occurs a lot more with discrete electronic components (like back in the '80s and our VAX-11/780's which had lot more discrete components) and less with integrated circuits. NOTE: I'm not talking about overheating components, just normal heating/cooling cycles.
All in all I would not worry about it. The OP (Grace 1) should use whatever method is most convent for her. And I would say if she is using a Macbook Air or the new Macbook Pro Retna display (or any other Mac with a solid state drive (SSD)), then booting from shutdown may not take all that long anyway.

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By the way, I am now running Lyon, as of August 18th. When the imac shut down, I was usually viewing photos or on the web.
thanks!

First thing I would try is to reset the SMC, it can help with power related problems. Shut down the Mac and unplug everything including the power. Press and hold down the power button for 10 seconds. Plug in the computer but be careful not to press the power button as you are plugging it in. Wait a few seconds and turn it on. Hopefully it won't happen again. There is always Apple Support. Don't let the problem persist until your free phone tech support has expired (3 months). I would also recommend using the iMac with an UPS, and at the very least, a high quality surge protector.
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