Windows 10 Will Not Auto Sleep

Hi Sootie,
Dont know what your specs are, helps if you put them in.

I have seen a number of threads concerning this,
And the most common repair that ive seen is that in W8 upwards the major makers, Dell/HPAsus/Acer etc have all updated their system BIOS to correct this problem.
So is yours upto date

Roy

s00tie said:

Have tried removing as many 3rd party apps as possible and still not working

I am having the same exact problem after upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
What is really frustrating is that I thought I had it fixed after doing a clean boot, Un-checking the wake up items in the power mgmnt section. and disabling all of the start up apps. I also went in and tweaked the Bios. It was working, To test it I had it set at monitor off after 1 min and sleep after 2 min. After testing it for awhile with it doing what it was supposed to I started enabling things gradually to see if I could narrow it down to what was keeping it awake before.

I still had it going to sleep after setting things back to normal with a normal boot and startup items re-enabled. Then later that day it stopped working. Stopped going into sleep. Seems to be a random event. Now, after trying to get back to where it would sleep again it absolutely refuses no matter what I do. So here I am. I even updated the chipset drivers with no effect. . I am thoroughly disgusted with Windows 10 because of this stupid glitch.

s00tie said:

I've seen lots of threads about similar issues here and I think I've tried everything I've read but nothing will make my PC sleep. It worked fine with Windows 8.1 but since 10 it doesn't matter what I change, the only way to make the PC sleep is to do it manually.

Here are some of the steps I've followed with no success:

- powercfg /requests shows nothing
- powercfg /energy doesn't show anything interesting
- no media sharing is enabled
- homegroup is disabled
- disabling NIC has no effect
- removing everything from the PC other than power and HDMI for video has no effect
- everything but my mouse is set not to wake pc (I have also tried with the mouse also set to no avail)
- updated drivers where possible

--Same here for most of this, system will not sleep on it's schedule I have set, though I can manually put it into sleep mode and it will not wake until I prompt it with a keyboard click or mouse movement.

So, 'sleep' works, but only manually and not on the timers.

Thanks!

The fix for mine was unplugging my Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick from the USB port.
It goes to sleep just fine now.

s00tie said:

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The weird thing is if I don't log onto the PC from a reboot, it will sleep just fine - the minute I log on it refuses to auto sleep. Also, if I boot into Safe Mode, the sleep works just fine again.

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So you should look for what is started at logon. A good utility is this; Autoruns for Windows

Hi, I was reading a few things on this- maybe something here will give you another idea- sorry of you've already covered all this.
Check your ethernet connection properties.




Update BIOS

Tools
How to read Wake Source Log (Event Viewer)
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...iewer-log.html

Commands

Powercfg lastwake
- lists device that last woke the PC
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-command.html

Clearly that sleep works in safe mode is a big clue. Does it if you do a clean boot?
Else look at drivers loaded- Autoruns can help here.
Driver incompatibility - perhaps need to use an older driver/wait for update - but you need to identify which one.
Scheduled tasks can be set to wake the PC. (? how do you search scheduled tasks for those that are set to do so?)