ASUS Laptop again refusing to sleep now due to mousecoreworker.exe

I had fixed the sleep on this maybe a month or so ago. Had been sleeping great. Then I noticed it never sleeps anymore

I ran powercfg /requests and the dreaded mousecoreworker.exe is running, related to windows update.
So I stopped the service and forced it to sleep.

This is the same problem on the recently sleep fixed optiplex 755. There was a 2002 bug about sleeping and windows update was supposedly fixed, and both these pc are running the latest 20h2 windows. And still windows update is stopping sleeping.

I cant keep up with this issue...what is the fix. It is unreasonable to expect a pc to sleep ? Have to shut down to save power, like yank the plug the only sure way it will sleep.

I also have a 3rd PC which sleep is hopelessly broken on, I have to power off if I try to manually sleep it as it wont come back up, it also never shuts off.
Today on that one I did an inplace repair upgrade to see if it would help, but nope, same behavior.

Out of 5 win10 PC I have, only 1 reliably sleeps, not a great record.

thomaseg1 said:

Have you tried disabling the mouse wake in the device manager

Nope, as powercfg /lastwake never shows usb device as being what wakes it.
Is not a bad idea, but it wont solve the mousocoreworker.exe as that is not the 'mouse' at all, it is windows update

Microsoft Windows 10 Update Now Breaks The Sleep Mode On Laptops, And We Are Not Surprised Anymore

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Windows 10 update breaks sleep mode feature - but there's a fix
more info on mousocoreworker and sleep.
I dont think the mousocore sleep bug is fixed yet (at least my experience)

thomaseg1 said:

oops sorry
got this in a search, might be something there
https://www.tenforums.com/gtsearch.p...&sa.x=0&sa.y=0

there is a free program called stopwindowsupdates, which I run on one of win10 pc's running windows media center
I mean, if this issue cant be resolved, maybe I will try it.

StopUpdates10 3.5.0.115 - Take your Control over Windows updates!

If it prevents the service from running then mousoworker.exe wont ever be running to stop it from sleeping

Paul Black said:

Yes, My Brother-In-Law sent me a link a this afternoon about this which I posted..

seven days reprieve through MS or do the stop windows update now program I linked which is forever.

I don't think any of the links above go here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...a02c4d?page=17

which I found somehow about a week ago. You have to enter a powercfg 'requestoverride' to stop the MoUso... process waking the PC. I tried this (see first answer on that p17) and it seemed to work - but of course, it could have been another Windows update fixing its own sorry mess.

Code:

powercfg /requestsoverride process MoUsoCoreWorker.exe execution

does the business. Then

Code:

powercfg /requestsoverride

hopefully confirms that MoUSo... is listed as overridden

mngerhold said:

I don't think any of the links above go here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...a02c4d?page=17

which I found somehow about a week ago. You have to enter a powercfg 'requestoverride' to stop the MoUso... process waking the PC. I tried this (see first answer on that p17) and it seemed to work - but of course, it could have been another Windows update fixing its own sorry mess.

Code:

powercfg /requestsoverride process MoUsoCoreWorker.exe execution

does the business. Then

Code:

powercfg /requestsoverride

hopefully confirms that MoUSo... is listed as overridden

Good ideas there...
How would you remove the override?