What have I changed? PC switches off rather than going to sleep?

[matt100]

Makes me sound like a total n00b lol..

I have my win10 machine set to sleep after a period of inactivity, it was fine until very recently.. woke up on key press/mouse move etc as you'd expect.

I think after a recent windows update or perhaps me messing with wake on lan settings (but importantly not changing the power/sleep settings) now it goes to sleep but when I go to wake it it takes ages and comes on via the BIOS splash screen etc, often comes back with the same windows open though, occasionally without and basically like a fresh start.

In the meantime all the lighting options I leave on when it goes to sleep stay on so you can't tell it's doing anything differently.

I'm lost lol, I can't think what I've done.. I've checked things like hybrid sleep etc not that I know what they do.

It's almost like it's going into a deep sleep which I'm sure someone will be able to tell me is something really straightforward?

Thanks!

 

[philo-sofa]

It sounds like... maybe your computer is waking via BIOS, rather than windows controlling things? Hibernate vs Sleep even?

If I sound dubious about my own explanation it’s because I’ve not messed with those settings in a very long time.

 

[pc-guy]

Go to your control panel and power options. Then go into advanced options setting.

Under sleep->hibernate select never

 

[matt100]

Go to your control panel and power options. Then go into advanced options setting.

Under sleep->hibernate select never

Yep already done that!

 

[pc-guy]

Google “how to restore powercfg” and then start the power options from scratch in the control panel

 

[matt100]

Ah, handy thanks..

The reason I mentioned the update was that recently it wasn't going to sleep at all and I checked via "powercfg -requests" what was stopping it and it was windows update..

But starting from scratch sounds sensible thanks.

 

[pc-guy]

Ah, handy thanks..

The reason I mentioned the update was that recently it wasn't going to sleep at all and I checked via "powercfg -requests" what was stopping it and it was windows update..

But starting from scratch sounds sensible thanks.

I had that same issue.

you need to set a command to override the munouser process. Google “how to stop munouser from stopping sleep”. There should be a page with a 10 step plan and within it there is a step to override the process.

anyway if you have restored power config you should be back to normal.

 

[matt100]

Well, I did. And nothing changed fished around in the bios too... very odd.

I've turned on ultra fast boot so there's basically no wait now but I can't think what's changed. Very odd.