Every morning, Laptop running, screen stays black...

If you want to troubleshoot sleep / wake issues consider opening a new thread with the applicable title so that it can be seen by more people.

These are some commands that can be ran:

Code:

powercfg /list
powercfg /getactivescheme
powercfg /A
powercfg -lastwake
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
powercfg -waketimers
powercfg /availablesleepstates
powercfg /requests
powercfg /energy
powercfg /batteryreport
powercfg /sleepstudy
powercfg /systemsleepdiagnostics
powercfg /systempowerreport

Excellent recommendation. I will go down that path, because this problem seems to crop up ALWAYS, subsequent to an automated wake event, in support of Windows Updates.