Night light off after screen wakes from sleep

Anonymous
2020-07-10T09:45:05+00:00

I have the issue that night light is always off when my screen comes back from a (blank) screen saver or the PC wakes from sleep. This has been mentioned several times but the recommended solutions do no address this issue but the issue that night light is not working at all. So to clarify, night light is working, it is just off when the screen comes back from screen saver. If I then check the night light setting, it is enabled and the slider is in the correct position but I need to briefly click on the slider for the feature to actually come on again. This is rather annoying as I often work at night and need to do this several times a day then.

Is there a solution for this? And again, please do not post any links on "how to fix night light not working" because it is working. It is simply off after waking from screen saver.

BTW I am on an HP ZBOOK 15 G2 laptop with NVIDIA Quadro 1100M and Intel HD 4600 (which Windows has stopped with Code 43 - I tried many things including the usual driver roll-back/update/removing hardware and letting it autodetect again etc, but have not been able to resolved it, so I assume that the system uses the NVIDIA card only - on the latest drivers). I run WIN 10 Pro, ver 2004 and am using an external monitor AOC Q3277.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-02T15:18:48+00:00

    I think you pointed me, at least, in the right direction.  the folks at dell were of no help last week when I tried to run this by them.  but you gave me an idea to check something. the latest oem intel graphics driver from dell was from march. I checked and there was an updated driver at intel (not an oem) from october. the difference -- the october one had in the update notes that it worked with 20h2, which the dell oem driver didn't have it listed, only the 1900 series for win10.

    fingers crossed it seems to have fixed the problem but I'll give it another day or two as the problem does disappear and reappear.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-02T17:20:13+00:00

    Thank you very much RonDeutsch1 for your reply. I am going to check release notes of both drivers and try to ask my vendor (Huawei) to update graphical driver if I will find anything similar there. The last oem driver was released in April, but AMD released their in November.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-02T21:50:55+00:00

    well.... it stopped working again.

    I'm still convinced the real culprit here is the pc settings app. 

    as I asked previously, I wish someone could tell me how to reinstall the app and if it's possible to do it without losing all my settings.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-02T22:16:10+00:00

    let me ask you this... when night light stops working, can you access pc settings app?

    here's what happens to me... if I right click to open pc settings from the night light button in notifications, it just freezes. if I open it from the start menu and click "system" it also freezes. however, if I close it and reopen it then try to open any of the other pc settings functions (like sound, power, battery, etc.) it works just fine, but again freezes if you try typing "display" in the search box. however, if instead I type in "sound" you get to the system menu, and can access other system functions, but if will again freeze if you try to click "display."

    is this happening to you?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-03T05:19:03+00:00

    Yes, I can.

    No access settings troubles, you described above, is here on my laptop.

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