How can I find out why it won't Sleep?

Inazuma · 13 Oct 2011 at 00:49

Hey guys

I have a problem. I've set my PC (Windows 7) to auto sleep after 1 hr of inactivity. Problem is that sometimes it just stays on. It has no problem going to sleep when I manually make it though.

Is there some thing I can look at to see what causes it to not auto sleep?

grez · 13 Oct 2011 at 01:23

Might be caused by tiny movements from your mouse even though you're not actually using it, have this problem myself sometimes. Try unplugging it and see what happens.

bledd · 13 Oct 2011 at 10:04

Some programs prevent windows from sleeping, what do you have running?

TheVoice · 13 Oct 2011 at 10:38

Check the power options, there's a couple there about media sharing/playback which by default, are set to not allow the PC to enter sleep mode.

Inazuma · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:48

grez said:
Might be caused by tiny movements from your mouse even though you're not actually using it, have this problem myself sometimes. Try unplugging it and see what happens.

I don't think it's this, because the screensaver comes on.

bledd. said:
Some programs prevent windows from sleeping, what do you have running?

Sometimes the browser and and windows media player. For the sake of a test I one time closed everything, but it still didn't sleep.

TheVoice said:
Check the power options, there's a couple there about media sharing/playback which by default, are set to not allow the PC to enter sleep mode.

I'll try this.

I seem to recall that there's some sort of log you can look at to see events?