Windows 10: Turn off the display: 5 minutes; still on 30 minutes later.

I created my own Power plan, and set "Turn off display:" to 5 minutes.
I went away for half an hour, and when I came back, the display is still on.

Any suggestions why this is not working?

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Regarding Sleep Mode Problem In Windows 10?

Hi Greg, the Power Plan is on Balanced/Recommended. For Turn off the display On battery, it is set on 5 minutes. For Turn off the display Plugged in, it is set on 10 minutes. To Put the computer to sleep On battery, it is set on 15 minutes. To Put the
computer to sleep Plugged in, it is set on 30 minutes. These are all default values by the way. For Sleep after On battery, it is set on 15 minutes. For Sleep Plugged in, it is set on 30 minutes. For Allow hybrid sleep On battery, it is off. For Allow hybrid
sleep Plugged in, it is off. For Hibernate after On battery, it is set on 180 Minutes. For Hibernate after Plugged in, it is set on 180 minutes. For Allow wake timers On battery, it is Disable. For Allow wake timers Plugged in, it is set on Important Wake
Timers Only. To Turn off hard disk after On battery, it is set on 10 Minutes. To Turn off hard disk after Plugged in, it is set on 20 minutes. Is that all right and is that everything you need? Please let me know. Thanks for your help.

 

Display & computer sleep functions don't work with Windows 10, Build 1607

This is a desktop PC. After the Anniversary Update for Windows 10 (Build 1607) was downloaded, the sleep timer functions in Power Options, Balanced, no longer work. In Advanced Options, I have the following setttings:

• Turn off display after 5 minutes,
• Turn off hard drive after 20 minutes,
• PC goes to sleep after 30 minutes, and
• For Multimedia, I have selected "Allow computer to sleep" when sharing media.

With these settings, the display does not turn off and the desktop does not go into sleep mode. The display turns off, but then immediately comes back on. HELP!!!

 

Let's start with the obvious, did you click 'Save changes'?

 

Yes, I'd saved the changes. But I had to go back into the power settings to be sure, and my Steve's Power Scheme (or something like that; I'm on my tablet, away from the PC right now) is as I'd set it, and was the selected/active scheme.

I'll tinker round a bit more, after I've taken my dog, Alfie (ANY-Web Community Websites.

 

Well, my settings seem to be in order, and my "Steves Power" profile is the active one.
But if I wait long enough, the display does lock, so it looks like some other profile is the actual active one.

 

Fwiw, I have mine to switch off after 60 minutes and for the most part it doesn't. This is on a clean install. Occasionally though it does although there seems no obvious reason for the random behaviour. Also I often find the desktop background which I have set to change every ten minutes often freezes when left and fails to recover unless I manually intervene and refresh file explorer. Even plugging a USB flash drive in reawakens it back to normal operation. That's been that way since W8.1