Win10 PC Won't Sleep Anymore

larrymcg said:

Mystery solved, sort of. I stopped the wmp service and the PC went to sleep! I started it up again and the PC doesn't sleep.

The only remaining mystery is why this started happening? WMP has been set up this way for years with no issues until the recent update to Win 10 v1903. That update also killed my ability to print from this PC over Wi-Fi to my printer even though my other 2 PCs (also running Win10 v1903) can do so. I solved that problem by hooking the printer to this PC with a USB cable.

My smart TV connects to WMP on my PC to play music and videos from my collection. Been that way for years. So, I think I will live with the current situation. My TV is connected to a high quality sound system (7 speakers run off a receiver) so that is good to use for music and videos.

If someone has more ideas on things to look into or try, feel free to do so!

-- Larry

You probably were.., but have to ask anyway, since this has become long thread..

Did you check this setting in Power options / Change plan settings/

larrymcg said:

AndreTen, It was set to prevent idling to sleep. I changed it to allow the computer to sleep and it did. I've changed it back to prevent sleeping since I'm guessing I don't really want the PC to sleep if I'm listening to music or videos. I assume that the streaming to my TV would stop then. I'll do an experiment when playing music to see what actually happens with the setting is to allow sleeping.

Oh, my - so many settings and so little time to find them all!

Thanks,
Larry

You're welcome
it would help, if you describe this (what was happening) in your first post.. but like you said, so many possibilities

Printer won't print. I would uninstall printer and re-install.

There was a patch a couple of weeks back that broke printing for some. I will see if I can find and post.

Not sure it is applicable after reading. Yours is printing with USB.

When you connect through network are there jobs in the print queue blocking print?

Larry, you can mark this thread as Solved now. It helps other to find solutions to similar problems.

Hear you.