Windows 10: Why Start Menu begin appearing when waking from sleep?

Seems as if for no reason the Windows 10 Start Menu appears when waking from sleep. It never did before. I do not want it to do this. I already know what I am going to do so this "help" of the menu being offered is a nuisance. It seems to have changed on its own. It never did this before. Again, I have disabled every start menu options I have done it from settings, I have looked in command prompt: powercfg /waketimers, I have clicked the Windows button and navigated to Sleep. There should be no Start Menu of any sort appearing unless I purposely click on the Windows button bottom left

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W10 Start menu always up on waking from sleep

First of all, it's laughable that the suggestion from a "Microsoft Support Engineer" was to attempt to disable the Start Menu. Thank goodness you'll never find it listed in the Task Manager so some poor, unsuspecting user won't actually succeed at disabling
the Start Menu and then be left with just a Desktop and no obvious way to get to their apps or to shut down the computer.

I've played with this a bit and WalkerJ49 is on the right track. The way the computer entered sleep mode determines whether the Start Menu is open when you wake up the computer. If the computer times out and goes to sleep on its own or if you manually
enter sleep mode by pressing Alt-F4 from the Desktop (click any spot on the Desktop background itself that doesn't have an icon on it to be sure you're "on the Desktop" before pressing Alt-F4) then the Start Menu won't be open already when you resume. But
if you put the computer to sleep by using the Power link on the Start Menu, the Start Menu will be open when you resume from sleep.

Hopefully that helps without actually causing harm like the suggestion from the "Microsoft Support Engineer" would have!

 

wake from sleep issue in windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting your reply. Apologize for the delay in response.

I suggest you to check which devices are configured to wake up the computer from sleep by following the steps below:

• Right click on Start icon and select Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type the command line below:

Powercfg /devicequery wake_armed

3. Check if the devices (Keyboard, Mouse, Ethernet cable) are listed.

If the system is not going to sleep and going to Hybernate, the only option to wake up is to press the Power button.

Hope the information is helpful.

 

Sleep / Wake Function, malfunctions after waking

Hi,

Issues that arise after waking up the PC from sleep mode might have been caused by a software conflict or system file corruption. For us to clarify the issue, we would like to ask these questions:

• What is the exact issue that you are experiencing?
• Did you notice any recent system changes prior to this issue?
• Have you encountered any error message?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

If you are having issues waking your PC from sleep, we suggest running the
Power troubleshooter as an initial troubleshooting. Kindly follow these steps:

• Click on Start.
• Type Troubleshoot, and then press Enter.
• Under Find and fix other problems, click on Power.
• Click on Run the troubleshooter button.
• Follow the onscreen guide.

We will wait for your response.