I’m pretty sure lots of users here successfully use VP on their laptops, I do anyway. I know that’s probably not much consolation, but no harm to know when trying to figure out your issues.

" • Laptop won't wake-up from sleep-mode."

No laptop running a video editing application should ever be allowed to sleep or hibernate.

Long-time laptop Vegas user here, I'm not sure these are really Windows issues and haven't seen any of them. Sounds like the laptop's settings are not working properly. I'd contact the OEM for support.

I would close Vegas before putting the laptop to sleep. I generally don't use sleep mode- better to cleanly shut down and cleanly start up.

Sorry, these issues have nothing to do with the Vegas app itself. Vegas actually runs without any issues—it's Windows' OS that doesn't seem to be cooperating. The thread is really just me wondering out loud if I should abandon the platform altogether before investing further and upgrading to Vegas Pro. I have many of the same issues with my other Windows computer in the garage, a Dell 24" all-in-one Core i5 machine.

After attempting to pair my earbuds with the Asus on the plane, I closed the laptop. A few minutes later when I opened it again, it just never would wake up (this happened throughout the trip). The Dell in the garage never wakes from sleep-mode either. Only pressing the hardware power-button resolves the issue on both machines which initiates a full power-cycle restart.

Minimal applications are installed on all computers. Microsoft Edge is the only browser installed on all machines. The Dell has only my Acoustica Mixcraft Pro 8 DAW and Dynamis RailController model train automation-software installed. My HP Z440 server and the new Asus Ryzen 9 laptop are only running VMS 17 with the HP Z440 also running a Blackmagic utility.

If you do a Google search for taskbar and sleep problems, a number of results will show up. Multiple Windows updates on the Dell finally resolved the taskbar issue so I was surprised to see it occurring on a new Asus laptop (which I think started acting up after the first-boot Windows update).

" • Laptop won't wake-up from sleep-mode."

No laptop running a video editing application should ever be allowed to sleep or hibernate.

All of my PCs' sleep-mode settings are set to "never." I only use sleep-mode when closing the laptop or as a convenient way to save power on my desktop machines (rather than completely shutting the machine down), where I manually select sleep-mode on-demand (i.e., I never let the computer time-out to sleep-mode).

I routinely put my iMac to sleep (rather than power-down) with Apple Logic still open. I rarely actually power the Mac down, perhaps once every few weeks. Logic resumes without a hitch and my macOS machines always wake up without issue.

I probably open and close my MacBook Pro 20 times a day and it always wakes up; in fact I can't recall it ever not waking up. The Asus is about 50-50 (i.e., wakes up about half the time when opening the screen). The Dell used to be about 10-90 (i.e., 90% failure to wake up), but now it's at a 100% failure-rate.

I use the sleep mode on my jukebox laptop (W10 based laptop with my music archive connected to my stereo). Closing the laptop stops playing music, while opening starts playing music from the point it stops last time. Never had an issue with that.

Sounds like you're going through those growing pains of being comfortable working on a MAC and then trying to achieve the similar functioning on Windows. Just take a deep breath and you will eventually get there. Right clicking is typically your friend when trying to find something in Windows.

In the meantime go search some Youtube vids on how to optimize Windows for an NLE, DAW and/or Video games. They will help you get more familiar of where to look and how to change the PC from the default "I'm an office computer" to fully performance driven NLE operation.

"Ethernet connectivity periodically "disappears" (I have a CAT6 hardline to a Netgear switch)."

I've definitely experienced this one on my Dell laptop. Sometimes, right clicking on the connection icon in right bottom corner and selecting "troubleshoot" will help fix the problem, other times not. It's happened to me so many times, that when I see it now, I just connect via Wifi instead and after a few restarts of my system, magically I'll notice it's connected via ethernet again. Or if I desperately need the ethernet connection, typically rebooting my switch, router, and laptop will get it back to working again.

@studio-4 @Rednroll

Dell Support article:

https://www.dell.com/community/Networking-Internet-Bluetooth/Network-Keeps-Disconnecting-Fix-Intermittent/td-p/3619814

My Settings:

P/S

Power Plans are not one-button affairs. They are labyrinthine.

John, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, when I originally got my PC I went through everyone of those power plan settings and set everything except for my display to remain on. Got display set to turn off after 90 minues, no activity. I just double checked to make sure and looks like everything is still in place as suggested. There are the plugged in and battery power options, but my laptop is pretty much always in the plugged in state.

The odd thing for me is that the power plan settings call out "Wireless" Adapter Settings, but there isn't a "Wired" Network Adapter setting. Makes me wonder if that has something to do with it since I've never witnessed the same problem when connected via Wifi.

Sounds like you're going through those growing pains of being comfortable working on a MAC and then trying to achieve the similar functioning on Windows . . .

Thanks for the pep talk, but I've actually had long experience with Microsoft PCs starting with my first MS-DOS AT-machine in the late-1980s, through Windows 3.1x and up, building my own Intel X86 machines throughout the 1990s. And, today, Windows' device manager still looks exactly the same!

At my then marketing job I had both a Pentium-90 PC and an Apple Quadra 700 on my desk and used Photoshop, Pagemaker, and Microsoft Office applications daily, including building custom DBMS applications in Microsoft Access and prepping four-color separations for pre-press in Pagemaker. I still remember going to COMMDEX to see the new Iomega ZipDrives so that we could finally dump our expensive Syquests.

I left Microsoft in 2007 when the all-aluminum Intel iMacs were released.

BIOS-, POST-errors, and BSOD-events have since been long-forgotten, until now. I've witnessed the weirdest error messages throughout my return to PC-land (e.g., "poisoned" PCI-slot?). I had to install/re-install VMS 17 three times to be able to get past Vegas' splash-screen (since then Vegas itself has performed beautifully).

I didn't mean to make this into a macOS v. Windows thread, but I've experienced enough frustration that I want to abandon the whole platform. Mind you, I was a long proponent of Windows machines over expensive Macs. Even for photo and video apps, I chose PCs; e.g., I purchased my first Photoshop 2.5 license for Windows, then later bought the pricey Adobe Creative Video Suite for Windows during the last days of physical-media (then left Adobe when they wouldn't cross-grade my license to macOS).

Studio-4

Once again, an interesting thread.

Not that I will ever get to the standard for Vegas Pro or need a Mac. I have used a laptop since early 90s. Now on a Desktop. Both low end machines compared to yours and others.

Don't care. Good to be in your, and other's, company.

Regards

Ross

"Ethernet connectivity periodically "disappears" (I have a CAT6 hardline to a Netgear switch)."

I've definitely experienced this one on my Dell laptop. Sometimes, right clicking on the connection icon in right bottom corner and selecting "troubleshoot" will help fix the problem, other times not. It's happened to me so many times, that when I see it now, I just connect via Wifi instead and after a few restarts of my system, magically I'll notice it's connected via ethernet again. Or if I desperately need the ethernet connection, typically rebooting my switch, router, and laptop will get it back to working again.

As you've also discovered, a quick Google search turned up an easy fix! (Windows' "troubleshoot" never solves this issue for me.) Apparently, the primary router/switch often gets "confused" when connected to Windows machines (this never happens to my hardwired iMac). Re-boot the router/switch and Ethernet should "re-appear." This happened to my HP Z440 multiple times but hasn't happened in the last week or so.

Another site suggested this CLI-command: "netcfg -d." Didn't have to do that since after a few days of power-cycles, my Ethernet magically reappeared. At first I thought it was my motherboard's built-in network adapter so of course I wasted $15 on a new PCIe Ethernet card when out of the blue, the problem resolved itself. Though, for several days in a row, the problem occurred repeatedly and was pretty distressing.

See more "disappearing" Ethernet fixes here.

My HP Z440's Bluetooth also disappeared so, again, I wasted another $10 on a USB Bluetooth dongle. A week later, Bluetooth magically reappeared as well.