How to Generate a System Sleep Diagnostics Report in Windows 10
A System Sleep Diagnostics generates a report of intervals when the user was not present (idle) over the last three or specified days on the system, and if the system went to sleep.
This tutorial will sow you how to generate a System Sleep Diagnostics report to show intervals when a user went idle, idle duration, and sleep state entered in Windows 10.
You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to run a System Sleep Diagnostics report.
EXAMPLE: "powercfg /SystemSleepDiagnostics" usage
Here's How:
1. Open an elevated command prompt.
2. Type the command you want to use below into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
It's recommended to save the report as a .html file to be able to easily use and read it.
(For .html file with default 3 day duration)
powercfg /SystemSleepDiagnostics /output %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\System-Sleep-Diagnostics.html
(For .html file with specified duration)
powercfg /SystemSleepDiagnostics /output %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\System-Sleep-Diagnostics.html /Duration days
(For .xml file with default 3 day duration)
powercfg /SystemSleepDiagnostics /output %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\System-Sleep-Diagnostics.xml /XML
(For .xml file with specified duration)
powercfg /SystemSleepDiagnostics /output %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\System-Sleep-Diagnostics.xml /XML /Duration days
Substitute days in the commands above with a number 1 to 14 to specify the number of days you want to analyze for the report.
3. Open the System-Sleep-Diagnostics.html or System-Sleep-Diagnostics.xml file saved to your desktop to see the report in your default web browser (ex: Internet Explorer).
4. This is a copy of my laptop's System Sleep Diagnostics report from a System-Sleep-Diagnostics.html file viewed in Internet Explorer as an example of what is reported. (see screenshots below)
Each interval is numbered. You can click on an interval (ex: 1) to jump straight to its analysis results.
This is an example analysis result for interval 1. Each interval will have its own separate analysis result to review.
That's it,
Shawn
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