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?

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2022-11-25T20:51:45+00:00

I'am just running windows 11 home but I finally figured it out after all that
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2022-11-25T21:09:49+00:00

Finally figured it out? What was it?
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2022-11-25T21:17:39+00:00

nothing just had to set it not to sleep for screen saver to come on lol
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2022-11-27T19:19:02+00:00

Disconnect usb gamepad.
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2022-11-28T16:52:56+00:00

I don't have a USB gamepad. Is this something that needs to be removed from device manager even if you don't have one?
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