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Windows 8.1 Tablet Screen Timeout
I recently purchased a new Windows tablet hybrid. Specifically, this one:
For reasons that simply escape me, this thing shuts off the screen after like 1 or 2 minutes regardless of what I set in the Power Plan Settings. Is there a magical setting that I need to adjust in order to make the screen timeout less frequently? As a slow reader, it's frustrating when the darn things shuts off the screen in the middle of a paragraph!
For reasons that simply escape me, this thing shuts off the screen after like 1 or 2 minutes regardless of what I set in the Power Plan Settings. Is there a magical setting that I need to adjust in order to make the screen timeout less frequently? As a slow reader, it's frustrating when the darn things shuts off the screen in the middle of a paragraph!
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