PC won't idle to sleep

[Guest]

Windows 10 has been fairly good to me but recently I noticed it would no longer idle to sleep. I checked the power plan settings and there ok. I also ran a powercfg -requests and it gave me a few things I want a some help with. I will update this when I get home later today.

 

[alexoiu]

There are applications that deny the system going to sleep. Check the programs that you've installed recently.

 

[bignastyid]

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Question from randomguy12 : "PC won't idle to sleep"

Windows 10 has been fairly good to me but recently I noticed it would no longer idle to sleep. I checked the power plan settings and there ok. I also ran a powercfg -requests and it gave me a few things I want a some help with. I will update this when I get home later today.

Many things can cause this. Do not leave any media on like a browser or video player. Devices can also cause this so you may have to go to device manager and under power management for each one, one at a time, and turn them off to see which device is keeping it awake.

 

[Guest]

There are applications that deny the system going to sleep. Check the programs that you've installed recently.

 

[Guest]

There are applications that deny the system going to sleep. Check the programs that you've installed recently.

Thanks for the reply. The only thing that I can track it to is when I plugged in my Mic and started using Cortana again. When I ran powercfg - requests it gave me two instances of "an audio stream is currently in use" and "device kernel request". Is it possible that the Hey Cortana feature prevents idling to sleep?

 

[alexoiu]

You're welcome.
Yes: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_cortana/cortana-sleep-issue/69bdad24-8838-438c-9fc4-430bbd3b88d4?auth=1

 

[Guest]

You're welcome.
Yes: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_cortana/cortana-sleep-issue/69bdad24-8838-438c-9fc4-430bbd3b88d4?auth=1

I read that and it is exactly as I thought. I'm still going to take some time and search through device manager and all settings. Worse case scenario is I go back to screen saver and manually put to sleep. Thank you all.

 

[alexoiu]

You're welcome.

 

[bgunner]

You're welcome