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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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Anonymous
2022-12-09T19:35:40+00:00 -
Anonymous
2022-12-09T23:35:39+00:00 Latest Windows 11 update did not correct the issue
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Anonymous
2022-12-19T08:02:08+00:00 My screen saver stopped working over a month ago. I tried all the fixes, except reloading Win11.
Reading through all the posts, I noticed one mentioned a USB game controller. I checked mine and found I had left my Realflight Interlink Controller plugged in.
Removed this, and screen saver worked again.
Although some posts mention they did not have usb game controllers, perhaps it could be that Win11 thinks they do, and then assuming they are playing a game, does not interrupt with a screen saver.
Even if my proposition is correct, I would not wish to advise on a possible fix.
In the meantime, thanks for the posts, a careful read and it got me to the root cause on my pc. Thanks, good luck, and seasons greetings to you all.
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Anonymous
2022-12-19T17:42:24+00:00 Still a bit early to confirm, but just noticed my screensaver is working on 2 straight reboots after the last update. They may have fixed something finally.
Update: Guess I got lucky it worked twice in a row, but still not working since that reboot.
FYI I set a keyboard shortcut to a screensaver file to at least make it easy to manually run one.
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Anonymous
2022-12-31T04:29:50+00:00 Add me to the list of folks having this problem with Windows 11. I've tried every fix in this thread and nothing has worked.
Unbelievable that Microsoft is ignoring this issue, based on the sheer number of posts I've seen about this very problem.
I can get my monitor to sleep if I disable HID-compliant game controller in Device Manager, but then I can't use my gamepad. There has to be a solution that doesn't require one or the other.