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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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Hey Miaent, you're a genius! The amount of time I've wasted on this. I stopped Adobe Creative Cloud loading on startup as you suggested and bingo, everything back to working. Thank you for posting this. It is a great relief to have everything back working. So glad you stuck with it! Brilliant!
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.
Yeah, that's partly what got me to post here earlier. I got permanent burn-in on a Wacom Cintiq display. Not covered under warranty, unfortunately. This bug caused permanent damage to my hardware.
I forgot to power off my PC this weekend before heading out to my cottage. Because of this issue which Microsoft still hasn't fixed, I now have OLED burn in on my $2000 monitor. Neither the screensaver, monitor sleep, or computer sleep functions kicked in (all of which were enabled, and I have tried every solution on this thread) Luckily I have a Dell so it should be covered by warranty but this is unacceptable there is still no response from Microsoft on this.
Thank you!!!! :-)
