Windows 8.1 Computer won't turn screen off

[DefiantPanda]

It's set to turn the screen off after 10 minutes and go to sleep after 30, and it used to, but lately it is always staying on. I have to always get up and manually turn the monitor off. Under power management, the network adapter is not set to wake the PC. I have uninstalled apple software... Don't know what else to do...

 

[appletatoes]

Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options ->Edit Plan Settings

Everything you need to set should be in there. I'm thinking your plan settings got changed. Check it in there.

Hope that helps!

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[DefiantPanda]

It's all good there... The other night I went to another room for a couple hours, I came back out later and the screen is scrolling down endlessly. I unplug the mouse and keyboard but it's still going. I turn the PC off and forget about it. Then, just before, again I left the room for a couple hours, I go back out there and of course, the damn screen is still on. I click on the address bar and I get +++++++++ over and over. I unplug the keyboard but it keeps going on and on.

Please tell me I am not being hacked... I'm really freaking out 🙁 The PC never sleeps

 

[appletatoes]

Sounds like it could be a keying program running on your computer and is set to run at start up but that would only address your screen inputting a bunch of +++. As for your monitor not going off I'm not sure what else I could suggest.. Can you upload a photo of the problem??

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