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Question

After Windows 10 upgrade, no screen saver or sleep

Aug 4, 2015 8:57AM PDT

I upgraded from 7 to 10. The upgrade was smooth and I didn't see any issues immediately. But, after setting the power and screen saver settings, the monitor never went into standby and screen savers won't start. I did not try hibernation because I never used it before. I discovered that didn't work either. So, I regressed back to 7 and everything works as before. So, as a test, I installed a spare HDD and did a clean install from USB. Same issues as the upgrade. Maybe I'm nit-picky, but I want the monitor to go to power saver after 5 minutes. Any thoughts?

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This solved the Windows 10 No-Sleep mode for me...
Jan 15, 2016 9:10AM PST

For me:
My system runs all the time and rarely gets rebooted.
It just out of the blue started with the screen saver running and the monitor on, would not go into sleep, standby or hibernate...
Changed all kinds of stuff in "Settings/System/Power & Sleep" to no avail.

This solved it "for me"...
I went into "Settings/Update & Security" Clicked the "Check for Updates" button, installed all available updates and rebooted.
As of right now the problem has solved itself.
If it comes back, I will update here...
G@@D LUCK Happy

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Bluetooth
Feb 15, 2016 3:14AM PST

I had to remove my Bluetooth mouse from Bluetooth devices to fix issue.

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All good so far...
Feb 15, 2016 6:03AM PST

I am running a Bluetooth mouse and all is well so far after installing all of the latest hardware, software and windows updates...

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Enable or Disable Screen Savers in Windows 10
Apr 30, 2016 10:13PM PDT

Published by Billy Amato
To Enable or Disable "Screen Savers using Group Policy"

1. Open the all users, specific users or groups, or all users except administrators Local Group Policy Editor for how you want this policy applied.

2. In the left pane, click/tap on to expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, and Personalization.

3. In the right pane, double click/tap on Enable screen saver to edit it.

4. To Enable Screen Saver
A) Select Enabled.
NOTE: Not Configured is the default setting.

5. To Disable Changing Screen Saver
A) Select Disabled.

6. Click/tap on OK.

7. Restart computer.