Windows 10: Powercfg -energy not working

Windows 11. I saw another archived but unsolved post about this issue, and I really need to solve it. When I run powercfg -energy it just returns instantly without creating a report. My pc won't go to sleep or hibernate automatically, and I need this to figure out why so my pc can stop running the entire night.*This is a screenshot from the other post where he used a laptop, but I use a desktop pc so I don't have a battery in mine.

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powercfg /energy not working

Hello crisu,

Good to see you in Microsoft Community.

powercfg /energy is used to analyzes the system for common energy-efficiency and battery-life problems and generates a report, an HTML file, in the current path. So you need to specify the path of the file behind the command (customize). Visit Powercfg command-line options | Microsoft Learn for more details.

For example, the following command is used to output energy-efficiency and battery-life problems report within 60s, and save a file named energyReport.html to the C:\Windows\System32 directory (it is the default path to Command Prompt, and you can customize it).

Another point worth noting:





If anything is unclear, please do not hesitate to let me know.

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POWERCFG /ENERGY doesn't work anymore

??? have you read my post ???

there's no executable called POWERCNFG.EXE

FWIW here's what POWERCFG -ENERGY yields with no other options:

PS> powercfg -energy

Enabling tracing for 60 seconds...

Observing system behavior..

Exact same problem: returns immediately and doesn't create the output file.

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Powercfg /energy immediately exits

When running "powercfg /energy" the command outputs the following:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> powercfg /energy

Enabling tracing for 60 seconds...

Observing system behavior...

It immediately returns me to the command line and does not generate a report. I had reinstalled 10 from a restore image (on my surface pro 4) and it was broken. I reset Windows and it started working properly. Now a few days later it's broken again. No updates
or software has been installed since the last time it worked. It just stopped working.

Anyone have know how to fix? There are no errors in the event viewer when I try to run.