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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?
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Although my monitors will turn off now after a few minutes the computer won't sleep unless I manually put it in sleep. The settings to automatically enter sleep mode don't work at all. I've spent so long trying to fix this now, following various solutions. And referring back to this thread. Nothing seems to fix it..
Same problem. This thread is a year old and still very active.
MS doesn't seem to care...
It's absurd. This issue has followed me from Windows 10 to Windows 11, even despite new hardware and fresh OS installs. There are threads going back YEARS about this very same problem.
Only thing that works is disabling "HID-compliant game controller" in the Device Manager.
That is NOT a solution.
Unbelievable that Microsoft doesn't seem to care enough to address this problem.
After hours of troubleshooting this, unplugging a joystick, namely a VelocityOne Flightstick, resolved the issue instantly. MS really need to fix this!
I have had this problem for a while.
I tried everything and I repeat EVERYTHING under the sun.
NOTHING works.
(Clean boots, installed and uninstalled every app or program, checked for viruses and malware with different antivirus, tweaking every single possible option on the plan, updated every possible driver, tweaked the registry many times, removed any USB or Bluetooh device, new profiles, uncountable SFC and DIMS).
I have image backups of my system every time I have an update because I know something will break)
I reinstalled Windows 11 many, many times.
NOTHING WORKS!
Whenever I installed an old image of the OS that works, I go through the updates and it breaks every time.
I cannot believe a simple function like sleep cannot be handle by the system.
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