Windows 7 Will Not Sleep or Not Sleeping


Method 1 – Configure Power Option Settings

If that didn’t work for you, the next thing to do is to make sure your Power settings are configured properly.
First, click Start, then type power sleep in the search box and click on Change when the computer sleeps.
windows 7 not sleeping
Now, change the value of Put the computer to sleep to something new like 15 minutes or 30 minutes, but do NOT set it to Never.
windows 7 will not sleep
Next click on the Change advanced power settings link at the bottom. Go ahead and expand Sleepand then expand Allow waker timers. Make sure this is set to Disable.
sleep problem windows 7
Scroll more and expand Multimedia settings, then expand When sharing media, and select Allow the computer to sleep.
windows 7 sleep

Method 2 – Disable wake up computer devices

If the first two methods didn’t work, your issue might be caused by devices that automatically wake up your computer. You can try disabling the devices that might be waking your computer.
Click on Start, type CMD and then right-click on CMD and choose Run as administrator.
run as admin windows 7
Now type the following command which will list out all the devices that can wake up your Windows 7 computer.
Powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
Now you can disable a device by typing in the following command and replacing devicename with the name of the device listed previously:
Powercfg -devicedisablewake “devicename
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You can also prevent the devices from waking a Windows 7 computer using Device Manager. Go to the Control Panel, click on Hardware and Sound and then click on Device Manager.
Expand the device you want to disable and right-click on it and choose Properties.
device manager windows 7
Click on the Power Management tab and uncheck the Allow this device to wake the computer box.
allow device to wake the computer

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