Microsoft Moderator guru solved it. It was the hibernate setting to NEVER that was preventing the autoshut down.

good evening,

Just ran both in the order suggested and completed without issue.

I'll leave the computer on now....and see if it is turned off or still is on....

Thank you in the interim for...

Hi there,

Just ran the devicequery wake_armed

It only found

HID-Compliant mouse
HID Keyboard device

I recall that I was to look for any other devices besides those 2.

How and where should I look for what might be running?

When I go to Task Manager and look at what is running, I don't know what might be the issue?

Is there another site I should be looking at...

Recently, this HP Envy laptop running Windows 10 64 bit 22H2 (OS Build 19045.2364) will not shutdown automatically. It had worked for several years without any issues.
I ran powercfg -request and...

Must have stopped working after another Windows Update the other day.
I found an old Fingerprint reader in C:\swsetup and installed that. Then found the Validity Sensor (WBF) (PID=0050) driver and...

Again it stopped.....the Fingerprint sensor was flashing but it wouldn't accept my swiping.

I went back into Sign-In options and the FingerPrint option again was greyed out.

I unistalled the...

2 of my 4 USB are not working.

I've written about this before. Today, I looked in Device Manager and under Universal Serial Bus controllers looked at Events for each of the 4.

In 2 of the 4...

Perhaps a little of all you said!
It started up in record time today along with the flashing fingerprint sensor.

Thank you again Professor!!!

IT'S WORKING!!! I honestly do not know what I did. But I went back into Sign-In options and the Finger Print sign in option was not grayed out. I proceeded to swipe my finger and restarted the...

Thank you for all of your suggestions!

I have reached out to HP Community to see if they have any suggestions too.

Giving up....well....I might...but then again....it's not my nature! :)
...

No driver amongst those suggestions.
The HP one that it did find did not install. It was from 2016.
I restarted the laptop checked Biometrics but there the driver was not appearing.

I'm looking...

There is no driver showing besides the Windows Hello Face Software Device in Biometrics.

It says I have a HP Envy Notebook when I looked in System Information.

Went into Setting and on Accounts...

Good evening to you. Early Sunday here.

Ok...so when I started the laptop, again it asked me for my password, and if I wanted to set up a PIN. Did that. Restarted and it asked for my PIN. So...

When I restarted the computer, it was now asking me to put in my Windows Password. Previously to whatever I was attempting to delete, I had to put in either my PIN or Password. I used my Password...

I downloaded EMCO and attempted to delete the contents of the NGC folder. But after I went back to look, the files within the folder were still there. I tried going into the subfolders and delete...

Thank you for your reply.

I went back into the NGC folder and again it said I didn't have permission. I changed it to Administrators, Check Names and tried again unsuccessfully to delete it .
...

Windows 10 Version 21H2

I've had issues over the past few years with the Fingerprint sensor.

I was able to get it to work a few years ago...but it stopped again the other day.

I've watched...

Thank you Steve. Just reset the order as you suggested, 20 min. drive off, 30 mi. for sleep, and 120 min. for hibernate.
I'll see how this goes and will update in a few days.

Perhaps I misunderstand the correct order...I thought turning off the hard drive meant turning the laptop off. Are you suggesting turning the hard drive off first, sleeping next and finally...

Hi Adam,
I set the hard drive to turn off after 120 minutes whether on battery or plugged in.
I have it set to hibernate after 15 min., to sleep after 30 min.
Not sure if I should modify the...

Hi Steve,

Other than updating Windows and resetting hibernating, sleep, and turn hard drive off, I don't recall anything else that I changed.

So far so good. I was away from the computer this...

Hey Paul,

Not exactly sure where to look in that txt file you referred to as to the source of the issue.
Yesterday, I updated Windows and reset sleep, hibernate and advanced power settings just...

powercfg /requests said None throughout

Thank you Paul.

Here is the txt file for the Power Diagnostics.