Windows 10: sleep/screensaver work unreliably

yea, i know all the powercfg stuff. nothing there, nothing even set to wake. the issue is that certain things make windows enter a state of "i don't care what settings you have".

i can restart my PC and test my sleep/screensaver timeouts, they work. if you put the PC to sleep and and wake it, my timeouts are not respected. 3 minute screensaver, never activates.

if you go to the screensaver settings and change it to any other number, apply, then change back to the original timeout, it will begin working again.

this is also seen when not even putting the PC to sleep. if i plug a controller in USB, it puts the PC in the same state of ignoring these timeouts.

extremely annoying and basically my only issue with win10 at this point. christ.

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Screensaver not working

this pc is still not working right. the screensaver works for a couple of hours and then it doesnt. It has been going into sleep mode after a minute or so. Totally unreliable windows 10 experience on this Lenovo. machine ignores the settings and always
has. Works occasionally for a while.

 

Screensaver shortcut

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I would suggest you to try the following steps and check if that helps.

• Go to the folder C:\Windows\System32 and sort by file type.
• Look for the screensaver file type (.scr).
• Find the file scrnsave.scr(you can choose any of the screensavers).
• Right click and select send to>desktop (create shortcut). The shortcut on my attachment, but when i click on it my screen goes off and on and nothing else.

 

Screensaver not working. Going to sleep instead.

I upgraded to windows 10 with my Toshiba laptop. I set the screensaver to come on and sometimes it works and most of the time it just goes to sleep. Can anyone give me some suggestions as to how I can fix this problem? Thanks