Windows 10 Screen Sleep Not Working
How To Fix Sleep Issues In Windows 10 Quick Tutorial MDTechVideos. Windows 10 does not wake up from sleep. How To Fix Flickering or Flashing Screen on Windows PC/Laptops (2019). Re: Sleep Mode and Shut Down not working properly after Windows 10 upgrade. Although this question is 2,5 years old, it still occurs on my Win 10 (no upgrade) Dell Latitude 7480. I did all driver re-install and upgrade as described in this thread, but nothing helped and my company's IT gave up.
Windows Sleep Problems
Ever since I first installed Windows 10 on my computer, there has been one niggling, recurring problem– it won’t go to sleep! By searching various forums on the internet and spending countless hours with search engines, I have over time “fixed” this annoyance several times, but it keeps coming back to pester me some more like an itch you can’t quite reach.
The biggest problem is that once I got it “fixed”, it would work long enough that when the situation happened again, I had long forgotten how I “fixed” it and would have to return to the mundane task of drilling through forums and search engines. Arghhh!
Well, it happened again about a week ago and this time I was determined to fix it, for sure, forever, this time around.
The title of this article contains the word “Solved”. This must be taken with a grain of salt. What works for me, on my computer, may or may not work for you on your computer. So-called identical computers are not truly identical. Just as identical twins have differing opinions, tastes and desires, so too, it would seem, do computers.
Why Windows Won’t Sleep
To be able to fix anything, you first must know what the problem is. Here is what I did:
- I opened an Administrative Command Prompt. To do so, use the Windows Key + X hotkey and choose Command Prompt (Admin)
- In the Command Box, type powercfg /energy and hit Enter
This will run in the background for about one minute. When it has finished, there should be some results shown:
In this scan it showed 8 Errors, 11 Warnings, and 21 Informational messages, pretty useless until you read the file it created. There will be a path to an HTML file which can be opened in any browser.
- Open that file and you should see something like this:
Your results will most likely be different. In my case, it was a Realtek sound driver leading to pulling hair out. This has caused grief in the past, and I have “fixed” this problem before by installing new drivers. Doing that solved the problem, but only temporarily. This time, things were going to be different!
Giving Windows Sleeping Pills
My final act was to uninstall the offending Realtek sound drivers and, heaven help me, let Windows install its own generic Microsoft (MS) sound drivers instead. Believe me when I tell you this is, for me, a desperate act. I never use dedicated Device Drivers from MS unless there is no way around it. The reason is that Microsoft’s drivers are oftentimes outdated and they hardly ever provide all the bells and whistles the original manufacturer’s drivers do.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Sweet Dreams, Windows
Using my favorite hotkey, Windows Key + X, I chose Device Manager from the menu
As you can plainly see in the above image, Realtek is nowhere to be found.
- In Device Manager, Double-click on the driver you want to Disable or Uninstall
- In the Properties Sheet that opens, choose the Driver Tab
- Click the button labeled either Disable, or Uninstall (depending on what you want to do, of course)
- Respond to the Frantic Warning Message in a positive way (read: click OK)
Note: If you really want to get rid of everything related to the driver, then check that little box to delete the driver software. Uninstalling a Device is not the same as getting rid of the software that drives it.
If you have chosen to uninstall a driver, it might be a good idea to re-boot your computer. This will guarantee that Windows will replace the driver with one of its own.
Confusing Conclusion
I have no idea whatsoever why a sound driver would have anything to do with Windows sleeping. It makes no sense to me. All I know is that eliminating it works for me. In this particular case one would have to choose between an ill-behaved Windows going tuck-tuck when it is supposed to, or having a more controllable sound system.
My biggest source of frustration with Windows 10 is that it misbehaves in simplistic ways that its predecessors did not. I see it as taking one step forward and two steps back. I wish Microsoft would get all the basic stuff working before embarking on huge new “improvements”. Don’t you?
Richard
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The upgrade process for Windows 10 went smoothly, but I noticed one thing. There were no Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, Hibernate options in the Power Options menu. In short, the Power Options had gone missing! Clicking on the icon displayed There are currently no power options available message.
The WinX Menu offered only the Sign out option.
If Power Options are missing from the Start Menu after upgrading to Windows 10 Creators Update, here are a few things you need to check up on to fix the problem.
Power Options missing in Windows 10
Type gpedit.msc in Start search and hit Enter to open the Group Policy Editor. Navigate to the following settings and double-click on it to open its configuration box:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar
Double-click on Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands.
This policy setting prevents users from performing the following commands from the Start menu or Windows Security screen: Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate. This policy setting does not prevent users from running Windows-based programs that perform these functions. If you enable this policy setting, the Power button, and the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands are removed from the Start menu. The Power button is also removed from the Windows Security screen, which appears when you press CTRL+ALT+DELETE. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Power button, and the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands are available on the Start menu. The Power button on the Windows Security screen is also available.
Ensure that Not Configured or Disabled is selected, click Apply and exit.
UPDATE: George Ivanov suggests in the comments section below the following:
Open GPEDIT.msc, and navigate to the following setting:
Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment.
Then in the Shutdown the system rule, grant your domain users with that permission.
There are currently no power options available
The Group Policy Editor is available in Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows 10 Education editions only, and not in Windows 10 Home. If your Windows 10 does not ship with GPEDIT, Run regedit to open the Registry Editor and navigate to the following registry key:
Now on the right side, check if a value named NoClose exists, and if it does, its value should be 0.
Restart your computer and see. The Power Options should appear.
If this does not help, there is another thing you can try.
Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
Windows 10 Screen Sleep Not Working Free
Change the value of CsEnabled from 1 to 0.
Restart your computer and check.
Incidentally, you can also use our freeware Ultimate Windows Tweaker to make Windows 10 show Power Options.
You will get the tweak under Customization > Windows 10. Uncheck/Check the Power Options Menu, click Apply Tweaks and restart your computer and see.
To show the Hibernate option, you will have to ensure that Hibernate is enabled, by running the following command in an elevated Command Prompt window:
Other things you could try:
- Restore default Power Plans.
Hope this helps!
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