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
    2023-02-08T19:00:53+00:00

    Add me to the list of people whose screen saver isn't working. It stopped working a few months ago maybe.

    I just did a clean wipe and install of Windows11 and my screensaver still isn't working. I don't have anything plugged in other than keyboard and mouse. I don't have Geforce Experience installed. I have all the latest updates. The only program I've installed so far is Steam.

    I found this article which might hint at the problem. I have a machine with 10th gen Intel where the screen saver works fine. If I run the powercfg /requests command there are no entries.

    On my other machine with 13th gen Intel I get "PERFBOOST: DRIVER Legacy Kernel Caller Power Manager"

    Could this be what is blocking the screen saver? Maybe has something to do with the Efficiency cores?

    Can everyone else run this command and report their results.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-15T20:48:33+00:00

    I get no entires for "powercfg /requests" and it still doesn't work for me 90% of the time. As I mentioned in the past, once in a blue moon it will work for a boot and then when I reboot it stops again. I have the latest updates and no peripherals plugged in other then mouse/keyboard.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-16T15:04:02+00:00

    How is this still an issue? I repeatedly have to correct this again and again with no indication as to what is causing it or that it is being taken seriously by microsoft.

    I'm holding off on buying a new OLED monitor because I'm afraid I'll forget and this will ruin it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-19T14:50:41+00:00

    So I just did a full format and clean install of Windows 11. As soon as the desktop booted the very first thing I did, before even installing my network driver, was enabling the screen saver with a 1 minute time out.

    And it never turned on. This is a fundamental OS problem that Microsoft needs to fix.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T17:19:14+00:00

    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.

    That worked! Thank you!!!

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