Win 10 won't Screen Save or Sleep

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Agrajag

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I have a fairly new install of Windows 10 after a full system upgrade (mb, ram, cpu) and now the system refuses to pay attention to my power settings so my monitor never turns off.

If I boot into Safe mode it turns off after 1 minute which is exactly what I have set (If I get this working again that will change to 20 minutes).

I've tried going into Task Manager/Startup and disabling everything in there to no avail. It still won't sleep.

Does anyone have insight on what the process should be to finding the offending culprit? I'd hate to have to resort to a re-install just over this, but I also don't want to be killing my two monitors over this issue.

Thanks.
 
Do you have Origin installed? When I exit the Origin program it borks my Win screensaver.
 
drutman said:
Do you have Origin installed? When I exit the Origin program it borks my Win screensaver.
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No Origin here. The screensaver just never works, period. Not a fresh boot. The only time it works is, as noted, in Safe Mode. SOMETHING in the registry has to be screwed up.
 
I have two win 10 computers that will not sleep. After trying to get the computers to sleep to no avail I ended up writing a program to make it sleep 30 minutes after the last key press on the keyboard. I really need to update it so it is configurable since that won't work when watching a movie on the htpc but if you want I can send you the program/source code after I update it.
 
something in the background is causing it since it works correctly in safe mode. start disabling thing in startup/background or try that ^.
 
pendragon1 said:
something in the background is causing it since it works correctly in safe mode. start disabling thing in startup/background or try that ^.
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As noted, I did exactly what you suggested with zero impact. I will be trying out the suggestion in the post above yours.
 
look at your services too, not everything show in task managers startup section. you could also try and create a new temporary account to see if it does it. if it doesn't comparing the running processes could help track it down.
 
Agrajag said:
That would be great. Thanks.
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I haven't forgot you, I apparently wrote the program on my old work computer so I didn't have access to the original source code. I copied it all over from a decompiled exe but missed a line yesterday so it was not working. I got it reading the key inputs now and the app.config file for the configurable time to sleep. I ran through a quick test and it appears to work just like the old one did.

Here is a copy to the source code and the exe.
https:// drive.google.com/open?id=1LbwtRrEQSJXOvmCNO3iIyRv6JI1siugZ (note I put a space after the https:// so it would show up. Its the same link as below just wanted to have a actual link you could see incase the magic below quits working)





If you want to look at the source or make any changes I wrote the program using C# in visual studio.
If you just want to use the program then in the directory ForceComputerSleep\bin\debug there you be two files. ForceComputerSleep.exe and ForceComputerSleep.exe.config Copy those where ever you want and run the exe. If you want to change the default sleep time from 30 minutes in the config there is a line "<add key="ShutDownTime" value="00:30:00"/>" Change that to something else like "<add key="ShutDownTime" value="02:00:00"/>" and it will sleep for 2 hours.
 
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