Windows 11 Screensaver / Display Sleep functions not working

Anonymous
2021-12-31T21:32:41+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-20T23:34:59+00:00

    Thanks Lynn for this great advice. The first option "Allow the computer to sleep" worked perfect, thats all it was.

    I ran the Windows PowerShell in Admin as a precaution and some errors were found which now work too.

    Thanks again

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-17T01:55:13+00:00

    Thanks Mathew, your post inspired me.
    It also works for me with I remove the mouse dongle, but obviously that's not so practical.

    I looked at the mouse settings in the device manager and Allow this device to wake the computer was already unchecked, so I searched again in Bing and found the following command:
    powercfg -devicequery wake_armed (run as admin)

    This showed me 2 USB Root Routers.

    I went into the device manager and unchecked Allow this device to wake the computer for both of them and even after a reboot it seems to work.

    My laptop now sleeps like a baby

    ![Image](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/2e33b815-4493-42b1-8b1e-c6aae0316b4e?platform=QnA

    Image

    Thank you for this

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T15:23:01+00:00

    I have tried several of the things posted here to fix the screensaver not activating issue but none of them kept it working. I finally gave up trying to fix it and instead just use PowerShell. I open a PowerShell ISE window and use the script below. You can adjust the time you want to use. I generally just leave this running but when I'm using the laptop for a long time I just stop the script.

    While ($true) {

    Start-Sleep -s 600 #10 minutes

    [String]$DefaultScreenSaver = (Get-ItemProperty ‘HKCU:Control Panel\Desktop’).{SCRNSAVE.EXE}

     if ($DefaultScreenSaver) {

      & $DefaultScreenSaver

     }

    }

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T06:30:20+00:00

    how do I pull up the menu

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T06:27:40+00:00

    How do I make it. START the screensaver

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