{"id":12351,"date":"2017-02-08T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2017-02-08T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:59:10","slug":"when-windows-10-wont-stay-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/when-windows-10-wont-stay-asleep\/","title":{"rendered":"When Windows 10 Won’t Stay Asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cure Windows 10 Insomnia<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Windows 10 sometimes has a problem sleeping. For weeks now I’ve been trying to get my Windows 10 laptop to sleep though the night. I tried changing the power options, which seemed to work sometimes, but not for very long. Then I remember a tip EB showed me quite a while ago. So, I dug out her instructions and sure enough, my Windows 10 laptop now sleeps like a baby.<\/p>\n

This worked great for me and it should work for you too if your Windows 10 PC seems to have trouble staying asleep. In order to find out why Windows 10 won’t asleep, it’s always good to know what’s keeping Windows 10 awake. So let’s see if we can find the culprit:<\/p>\n

First, right-click the Windows 10 start button and choose “Command Prompt (Admin)”<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the prompt type the command:<\/p>\n

powercfg \/energy<\/p>\n

Please pay close attention to the spaces, you have to leave a space before the slash or this won’t work. You see a notices that the command starts a tracing process that will last around one minute.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight
\nWhen it’s done tracing, you’ll see that it has generated an “engery-report.html” which shows you everything that’s going on with your power configuration, and gives you some ideas as to what keeps waking up your Windows 10 PC. As you an see from the screen shot above, my poor work laptop, a glutton for punishment had 9 errors, 18 warnings and 36 informational items listed. <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to open the report it generates, you’ll need to copy the location “C: \\Windows\\system32\\energy-report.html” which you can do directly from the Command box<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight
\nHighlight the file path and press the Enter key to copy it. Press Windows Key + R to open a Run dialog and pasted it in the run box:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And press OK. The “Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report” will open in your default browser.<\/p>\n

As you can see from my report (below), my poor, old work laptop had a number of errors<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Every error is highlighted in pink.\u00a0 The first entry tells me I don’t have sleep configured for my laptop – but it’s wrong, because I do. The second item, though, caught my eye. I don’t use Windows Media Player networking – I rarely even use Windows Media Player.<\/p>\n

Windows Media Player Network Sharing runs as a service in Windows. In order to stop it, I opened a Run dialog, typed in Services.msc and pressed OK to open Services. In Services, I found Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. It was set to run Automatically at Windows startup. I don’t need it and I sure don’t need it starting with Windows so I set it to “Manual” which means it will only run manually if a program requires it.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was right – the culprit turned out to be Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service running constantly in the background. Turning it off, enabled my Windows 10 computer sleep like a baby. My computer is now a sound sleeper!<\/p>\n

You might have other things keeping your Windows 10 computer awake; in order to be a super sleuth you need to have the information to help you nail the culprit. And now you do!<\/p>\n

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Cure Windows 10 Insomnia Windows 10 sometimes has a problem sleeping. For weeks now I’ve been trying to get my Windows 10 laptop to sleep though the night. I tried changing the power options, which seemed to work sometimes, but not for very long. Then I remember a tip EB showed me quite a while ago. So, I\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}