My machine will only sleep when it is at the login prompt asking for my password. Any way to find out why it will not sleep when I am logged in?
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I haven't disabled hybrid sleep yet, but I did find out if I set it to sleep in 1 minute it goes to sleep, but if I set it to 5 minutes it doesn't go to sleep.
I never got it to sleep. I just checked again and something had set it back to turn off the display after 20 minutes and sleep never. Anyway to find out what is making those changes?
Just a note on hybrid sleep - it takes a snapshot of the RAM before sleeping in case power is lost and then the system can be brought back up as if from hibernation. I would be really surprised if there was a problem there.
The fact that it won't sleep if you're logged in strongly suggests to me that a userland app is causing a problem. I would probably troubleshoot this by closing any apps that are running while logged in (remove any security software for a short time too) and see whether there's a difference in behaviour. If there is additional software for input devices that isn't strictly needed immediately, uninstall it.
I would also check the event log because it might well tell you which process is blocking the computer from going to sleep. Win7 has a couple of improvements over predecessors, like telling you which app is blocking a storage device's removal, as well as user profile log off issues, it might well do here as well.