I have also done a clean re-install, but sadly, no luck. This has been plaguing me from the beginning and have tried everything
Windows 11 Screensaver / Display Sleep functions not working
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A few weeks ago, I can't remember exactly when it occurred (May have been after installing W11) my screensaver and display sleep functions just completely stopped working. I have tried every trick in the book. I have updated my BIOS and chipset drivers. Powercfg -requests shows an audio stream running from realtek, I tried overriding it but didn't solve anything. I confirmed every power option setting is correctly enabled. Basically I've spent extensive time googling and troubleshooting this to no avail.
The one thing that did fix it was running the DISM restore commands in CMD Prompt, however, it only works temporarily for the initial reboot after running that command, and then it stops working again if I reboot a 2nd time.
What can I do to fix this problem?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Display and graphics
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2023-02-28T04:39:51+00:00 I have a brand new computer, built from scratch. Every component is new. Clean install of Windows 11 from a USB drive. Once I had all the updates done and minimum software installed (Windows11, Chrome, Office365) the screensaver stopped working.
I've tried all the "fixes" in this 9 page thread and still no dice.
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Anonymous
2023-02-28T02:45:38+00:00 Well get this. I just had to do another clean format and install due to a RAID issue. (This is my 2nd PC for gaming only so its easy to start from scratch)
And lo and behold the screensaver is working. The thing is I have no idea what the difference is now. I set up Windows and settings the same way I always have them and installed all the exact same apps as before.
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Anonymous
2023-02-27T17:19:14+00:00 I've tried all the fixes prescribed in this thread and appreciate everyone's input. Unfortunately none of the prescriptions worked. Going on months of frustration I reviewed what apps were using my battery (screen saver issue happened both with battery and when plugged in) and noticed Adobe Creative Cloud using a lot of background resources. This app is set to open on startup. Well, I closed the program and unchecked "open at startup" and guess what, it solved the problem. So for those who can't fix the problem look at your programs running in the background.
That worked! Thank you!!!
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Anonymous
2023-02-19T14:50:41+00:00 So I just did a full format and clean install of Windows 11. As soon as the desktop booted the very first thing I did, before even installing my network driver, was enabling the screen saver with a 1 minute time out.
And it never turned on. This is a fundamental OS problem that Microsoft needs to fix.