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
    2024-03-25T15:23:01+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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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T06:30:20+00:00

    how do I pull up the menu

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

    How do I make it. START the screensaver

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-20T15:40:48+00:00

    Hi, I have had the same problem with my screen saver in Windows 11. When I removed my wireless mouse plug in, it worked fine.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-15T07:37:01+00:00

    you have to go to the page you just mentioned and click the advance power settings option. but as most have commented, that didn't fix the issue.

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