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Troubleshooting Windows 11 keeping Display on

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Troubleshooting Windows 11 keeping Display on

...and why Windows is not going to sleep when left idle

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Nicklas Møller Jepsen
·Aug 19, 2022·

1 min read

So, I got a new Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, awesome display but it's also functioning as a heater and eating a lot of electricity. Therefore I want to keep it off when I'm not using my computer. That used to work fine, but a few weeks ago Windows no longer turned off my display and stopped going to sleep when I didn't use my computer. I was pulling my hair to figure out what was happening, I changed power settings, sleep settings, screensaver settings and so on but nothing helped.

Then I found I about a nice little command:

powercfg -requests

Run this in the terminal and you'll see what is keeping a lock on the system.

In my case, Adobe Creative Cloud caused the trouble:

PS C:\Windows\system32> powercfg -requests
DISPLAY:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume6\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\ACC\Creative Cloud.exe
Video Wake Lock

Why on Earth would they keep a display lock for a background process like Creative Cloud? Anyway, killing that process and making sure it doesn't start with Windows fixed the problem for me. Next thing I'll file a bug report for Adobe to prevent this behavior.

 
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