I don’t have any power requests right now, but when there’s a problem you might see the name of a device driver or an IP address that can help you narrow down the root cause. This will show you all the applications and drivers that are making power requests. My report is a recondite webpage named energy-report.html sitting in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Īdmittedly, the report reads as if it were designed for robots but not people, so it can feel abstruse and you might find yourself scrambling for an interpreter. Now enter this into the black void known as the Command Prompt:Īfter about a minute, you can view the Power Configuration report by browsing to the file location displayed in the results: You have to be an admin to pull of this trick. Press the Windows Key + x then press the letter “ a” to open a Command Prompt with Administrator rights. I bet your settings are properly configured here – which is one of the reasons why this conundrum is so freggin’ annoying.įortunately, Windows comes with a niffty little tool to make our sleuthing a little easier. Pressing the sleep button is tantamount to popping an Ambien however, the computer should sleep automatically when there’s no or minimal disk activity. Scroll down until you see Power buttons and lid and then click the + (plus) sign next to Sleep button action to verify the action is really set to Sleep. The P ower Options box shows up with a myriad of settings. The Edit Plan Settings box will pop onto the screen. Go ahead and click the blue Change plan settings link immediately to the right of your power plan
Press enter and your power plan should immediately show up. It stands to reason that clicking Sleep should put the computer to sleep however, those settings can change - let’s make sure they haven’t. If not then try these steps from Vonnie Hudson's guides on windows. If this is not the issue, and it usually is, because if the programs are open Windows will not sleep until they are all closed. This will make a list of them on the left side go to think link to see this guide and a bunch of others for WIndows 8 and 8.1 The above will close the current app your on.ĪLso you can view a list of the open apps by pressing keys To close a tile or app while you are in it, (so you dont leave it open) save your work then pressĪLT+F4 (some keyboard require you to use the FN+ALT+F4 or FN+F4) To check what is open in the tiles do the following This issue is a biggie with win 8 and 8.1, because the tiles keep the last 4 apps open. First off, make sure all of your programs are closed.
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