Windows 10: Windows 10 refuses to sleep

By the way guys, if I were to stop using Windows defender as an antivirus, which one should I take? Not invasive and good... and free! I strongly believe this is the root cause of svchost issue. That could explain why those who don't use Defender don't have the issue... (maybe).

 

I don't think it is a Defender issue. It is an update issue. Any update will trigger this.

The real issue, I believe, is that there is no effective mechanism to cancel the request after it has done its job.

I also had an appropriate srvvnet request this morning but it disappeared after a while. The svchost (wuauserv) one just outstays its welcome and it needs a restart to clear it.

This is what's happening on my machine, anyway.

 

Yeah but as David said earlier Defender update frequently, but regular updates not. So he doesn't have the problem and I have.

 

Actually, under 8.1 my Defender updated at least daily--sometimes twice a day. But, I had my updates set to notify me but do nothing else automatically. Some days I'd manually download two updates...but I'd say the average is pretty close to daily. Or rather was, under 8.1. Come to think of it--it's about the same with Win10 so far...

Sleep is often more a problem with device manufacturers and the Windows drivers they release--it's not really a "Windows" problem, per se. It becomes especially problematic in laptops which sacrifice everything on the altar of power conservation for battery life, and in which 2nd-tier components and drivers are often used (and rarely updated), as well. The problem with devices and their drivers isn't so much the "going to sleep"...it's the "waking up" that hurts...*Wink

I disable both sleep and hibernation system-wide and have done so for years...with the exception that I generally have no trouble with monitors "sleeping" as they generally wake quickly and without complaint. People have to watch disconnecting their hard drives, their PCIe slots, and etc. as although all of that makes sense for battery life conservation theoretically, what good does that do if your machine refuses to wake? I don't use laptops of any description these days except when I'm forced to, but I find that simply setting my cpu and gpu to throttle way down when I don't need the power is more than sufficient for me (my cpu is set to drop to 10% of full speed and ramp up the power on demand only as needed, and my GPU is automatically set to do about the same thing itself.) Things stay cool when they should be and power is conserved when it makes sense--and ramp up on demand is perfect and never causes me problems. (I think Intel calls it "Speed Step" and AMD calls it "Cool 'n Quiet," for their cpus.) Best of all--no problems ever with "sleep" because when it never sleeps it never has to wake up...*Wink My boxes sleep every day *only* when I shut them down.

 

But David has his win 10 under VM in win 7 so his may well not be comparable.

 

I just tested auto sleep on the Win 10 VM and it worked.
I set it to 1 minute for a quick test.
I changed it 30 minutes and will see how it works the next few days.
I really don't see much need for auto sleep on a VM as the PC will still be running because of Host activity...
But, testing it, it didn't cause any issues going to sleep or waking up so I'll play with auto sleep and see if it works.
In VMware it puts the machine into "suspended" state.

I like sleep and hibernate and it works for me on Win 7 and Win 8.1.1.
I did have sleep issues because of srvnet requests but overrides fixed that issue.

As far as Windows Defender definition updates, in Win 7 MSE and Win 8.x WD a scheduled task can be created to automatically update the definitions.
I assume this would work in Win 10, but haven't set up a task and tested it myself.
Not sure if such a task would help, if definition updates are causing a sleep issue ???

 

My problem is not Definition updates. Any update registers a power request and this never gets released. I did a manual update which gave a request svchost.exe (ProfSvc). Any of these execution requests stops sleep.

I tried your override and see in requestsoverride:-
[SERVICE]
svchost.exe EXECUTION

The override doesn't work as it won't sleep, regardless.

 

What is it that folks don't understand about win 10. . .it is a tech preview. . .there are going to be problems, albeit I have not had the problem you are talking about on any Windows OS. Also there is the shut down method (it does work).

 

What is it about tech preview that you don't understand? Why do you think MS put this out approx 9 mths before release?

What would have been the point unless they were looking for feedback from 'ordinary' users? Why did they include a Feedback app do you think?

And why would we care if you shutdown your system? That's going to help MS debug the OS, isn't it.

 

This is the entire reason I think the topic is being addressed - to try to weed out any possible system issues so MS can be presented with enough information to fix a sleep problem which cropped up for MANY users in Win8.1 and may have carried over to Win10b. I assume others are using the facilities MS has included with Win10b to report the problem as well. I have. So, this particular folk DOES understand that Win10 is currently a tech preview release - released in order to discover problems and issues so that they might be addressed before Win10 is officially released. I would think that at least most people who've posted in this thread so far didn't do so simply to complain.

While this may be so, in my case (and several others) with Win8.1 the fact that switching from a Microsoft account login to a local login solves the sleeping problem reliably would seem to indicate that it actually IS a "Windows" problem. I can't yet say that it's the same issue on Win10 - I'm running Win10b on a VMware Workstation platform which makes it very difficult to nail down a causation. I'm having issues with sleep on this platform, but it's hard to know at this juncture if it has anything to do with the same issue which causes me problems on 8.1 (but not 8.) Plus, as anyone who uses Workstation knows, there are normal issues using that platform for testing something like this which would often render results inconclusive.

I CAN definitely indicate, however, that the problems @linw is reporting as the causation for his sleep problem on Win10b is not the same issue causing the sleep problem on my Win8.1 install...

 

True, Gork, this 10 problem is not like the 8.1 one.

 

And thank goodness for that since, as has already been said, the cause you're reporting for Win10b at least seems easily staked out for a fix!

 

I haven't got 10 installed yet. May I suggest someone post the non sleep issue here: https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...tml#post151233

And make sure it's entered into the feedback app.

 

I posted this in post #86 in bugs thread.

Tried the feedback app but I had trouble with it. Will try again.

 

Tried a clean install on a different disk on my machine. Problem was there as well. Was even worse as the srvnet request was there as well! Also media player sharing was active. Gave up as definitely not a solution.

But why doesn't everyone see this update request problem? That is the big mystery.