Windows 10: Windows must be very tired-refuses to stay awake

W10 will stay awake when something is running. But goes to sleep within minutes when idle. Laptop is plugged in.
I have everything I can think of set to make it stay awake. High performance profile, no sleep ever, no hybrid sleep, no hibernate, no drive off (SSD), Display off in 15 min.
When on battery, it is set to sleep in 5 min. Apparently it thinks it is not plugged in, but why?? It is and battery is at 99%, not charging.

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How to keep computer awake after waking from a scheduled job.

I put my Windows 10 PC to sleep each night before going to bed and need it to automatically wake up at 8:00 AM each morning and
stay awake until I put it to sleep at night. I have a scheduled job that dutifully wakes the PC every morning, but the problem is that it puts itself back to sleep within a few minutes. If I move the mouse during the few minutes it's awake
it stays awake all day with no problem. If I wake the computer with the keyboard it stays awake all day.

This process worked fine in Windows 7. Any suggestions?

 

Screen saver does not work once logged in (Desktop)

The test/preview of the screen saver immediately kicks in the screen saver in demo mode, ignoring any devices that tell the system to stay awake. When the screen saver is going to kick in normally, it has to check and see if anything is forcing the system
to stay awake. So: those are completely different concepts, sadly. That might be the confusion here. Does removing the joystick and/or updating the drivers for the one that's making the system stay awake help?

 

Hi, there are several extensive threads on this. Please feel free to search the forum and use it as a resource.

example: I searched the forum for
sleep two minutes




Refining the search may give more results- I suggest you try
Solved sleep minutes
for example.

If you find no solution, please post back listing what you've tried. Good luck

 

How did it come about? Are you having this problem from the very beginning or after an update or upgrade?
Is it a laptop or a desktop (as stated in your system specs)?

 

it is a laptop. I think it just started, but since I don't use it all the time I really don't know what stated it - . I recently had to reimage the drive and worked hard to get it where I wanted it. So a lot changed and updated. I read something about an xHCI USB3 controller and it may have started after I updated that. But I don't know what to do with the xHCI driver. I guess I could uninstall it and see what happens.

 

Thank you for the explanation.

Uninstalling the driver to see what happens is a good idea, but before you do that try something as simple as opening your BIOS / UEFI settings and look for power settings, energy saving or something similar.

Then, could you open your Device Manager and see if, by chance, "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" setting (for the batteries, display adapters, keyboards, mice and Universal Serial Bus controllers) hasn't been changed?

 

I did that once b4, but this time thru the network adapter was allowed and all the USB devices were also.
HOWEVER, b4 doing anything this AM, last night it mysteriously stayed on without any changes.
I love troubleshooting W10.

 

You mean: the "Allow..." boxes were checked? How strange. I even don't know how to do it myself, even if I had to.

Let's hope, for good.

Then there are two of us *Wink

 

what is "stranger" is that you just told me how to do it -then said "I even don't know how to do it myself" ?????????????????
I'm not following that, BUT
It seems like there is a little double talk about that setting on the MS site for the network adapter. If it is checked W puts the network adapter to sleep. If it is not checked W shuts it down and must reinitialize it. It isn't good to not have it checked.

For the USB devices, it says it will NOT shut them down if it is not checked and will put it to sleep if checked.

Anyway, it is still going to sleep. I have a narcoleptic computer.

 

Just a little linguistic misunderstanding - I wanted to say that I don't know how to mark / select an empty box before "Allow the computer to turn off..." if I wanted to.

 

maybe you are thinking of the grayed out ones, which can't be selected.

 

Exactly !

 

I guess it depends on the driver. Sometimes when I select or unselect one the other one becomes selectable.

 

Really sorry, but I'm not that knowledgeable about the drivers. I hope somebody else on this forum will tell you what to do next. I'll be watching this thread so that I can learn something new from somebody more experienced. Good luck.