Why does Windows 10 like sleep so much?

[KublaiKhan]

Just finished a re-install.

Something we're noticing is the machine going to sleep. And it's some kind of special sleep, at that. You can move the mouse, nothing happens. Press keys, nothing happens. If you use CTRL-ALT-DEL, you can bring up the Task Manager access screen, which ends the magical slumber.

And Windows 10 treats every PC like a laptop, trying it's best to put hardware to sleep as quick as possible.

How do you take control over these insane "power saver" features? It appears you cannot stop Windows from shutting down some hardware at some point. Is that really the case?

I know you right-click the desktop, select customize, and you get a menu. But it doesn't seem to work very well. That is, it does not seem to honor the user settings.

One of the problems we saw BEFORE the re-install were random sleeps, the machine going to sleep as soon as it hit the desktop, and sleeps you have to escape with the power button. Maybe the entire power management code they've developed is crap?

 

[USAFRet]

It's something on your end.
None of my Win 10 systems sleep randomly, unless I have so specified. Home or Pro, desktop or laptop.

 

[Colif]

right click start
choose power options
set power to HIgh Performance
select change power settings next to the plan you using
choose to have Monitor and PC to never turn off when plugged in - it won't go to sleep set like this
IN advanced power options, search for hdd and set it to never turn off

 

[KublaiKhan]

The problem is actually very common. Windows 10 is regularly corrupted by updates, and this is one of the symptoms: The machine will go to sleep immediately upon boot, will go to sleep at random—even when in use, and will fall into a sleep which only the power button will interrupt.

Reinstalling Windows is the only solution. Make disk images, and watch for Restore points being quietly deleted behind the scenes.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

The problem is actually very common. Windows 10 is regularly corrupted by updates, and this is one of the symptoms: The machine will go to sleep immediately upon boot, will go to sleep at random—even when in use, and will fall into a sleep which only the power button will interrupt.

Reinstalling Windows is the only solution. Make disk images, and watch for Restore points being quietly deleted behind the scenes.

I have used Windows 10 on many, many systems and I belong to a Windows 10 club and I have never heard of this. It must be your hardware.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Reinstalling Windows is the only solution. Make disk images, and watch for Restore points being quietly deleted behind the scenes.

This is the way that all installations work. I use Linux and install Linux on people's systems and this is a normal part of every installation.

If you are installing any OS you can not expect any data to remain from a previous installation.