Screensaver or Power Options (questions)

Hi folks,

(PC, 16GB RAM, Win10 Home 1703 15063.608, everything patched, etc...)

I have my screensaver set to fire after 10 minutes of inactivity, which
works fine.
After that, I have the Power Settings set to “turn off� the screen after 1
hour.
(I have the Sleep Setting set to “never�.)

My problem is that something is preventing my screen to actually turn off,
so it goes from screensaver right back to the desktop.

This means essentially that my monitor is going 24/7 with no break!

I’m using the “Preferred Plan� of Balanced (recommended),
and I just don’t know what/where else to change/adjust/toggle, etc...

Any thoughts, ideas?

Neil ¦¬D
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Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
Hi folks,

(PC, 16GB RAM, Win10 Home 1703 15063.608, everything patched, etc...)

I have my screensaver set to fire after 10 minutes of inactivity, which
works fine.
After that, I have the Power Settings set to “turn off� the screen after
1 hour.
(I have the Sleep Setting set to “never�.)

My problem is that something is preventing my screen to actually turn off,
so it goes from screensaver right back to the desktop.

This means essentially that my monitor is going 24/7 with no break!

I’m using the “Preferred Plan� of Balanced (recommended),
and I just don’t know what/where else to change/adjust/toggle, etc...

Any thoughts, ideas?

Neil ¦¬D

https://superuser.com/questions/3876...he-screensaver

From an administrator command prompt (cmd.exe, right click, Run as Administrator)

powercfg -energy -trace

Or use

powercfg /?

to see what options it supports.

The idea is, to try to get powercfg to log what is preventing
some change in state.

It's either that, or the Reliability Monitor, if something
was crashing.

Purely a guess,

Paul

"Paul" wrote in message news
Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
Hi folks,

(PC, 16GB RAM, Win10 Home 1703 15063.608, everything patched, etc...)

I have my screensaver set to fire after 10 minutes of inactivity, which
works fine.
After that, I have the Power Settings set to “turn off� the screen after 1
hour.
(I have the Sleep Setting set to “never�.)

My problem is that something is preventing my screen to actually turn off,
so it goes from screensaver right back to the desktop.

This means essentially that my monitor is going 24/7 with no break!

I’m using the “Preferred Plan� of Balanced (recommended),
and I just don’t know what/where else to change/adjust/toggle, etc...

Any thoughts, ideas?

Neil ¦¬D

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https://superuser.com/questions/3876...he-screensaver

From an administrator command prompt (cmd.exe, right click, Run as
Administrator)

powercfg -energy -trace

Or use

powercfg /?

to see what options it supports.

The idea is, to try to get powercfg to log what is preventing
some change in state.

It's either that, or the Reliability Monitor, if something
was crashing.

Purely a guess,

Paul
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Hi Paul!

The "energy trace" did nothing, but the "/?" brought up a list of 32
options!
I think this is a little over my head, and I'm just going to leave things
the way they are for the time being.

Thanks (as always) for your help!
Neil ¦¬D
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:19:44 -0400, Paul
wrote:

From an administrator command prompt (cmd.exe, right click, Run as Administrator)

powercfg -energy -trace

Or use

powercfg /?

to see what options it supports.

The idea is, to try to get powercfg to log what is preventing
some change in state.

Hi Paul

I ran powercfg trace command and got two .etl files energy-ntkl.etl
and energy-trace.etl.
What program do you use to see these files? After some gogling I tried
ULSviewer, but that could not read the file: "File reader could not
understand..."

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Jesper Kaas -