Windows 11 23H2 - System goes back to sleep (AFTER waking) in 2 Minutes

Try setting USB Selective Suspend Setting > Disabled

If you want a quick workaround fix, you can just use Microsoft Powertoys’ Awake feature

What about just removing the setting from Power Options?

dacrone said:

Try setting USB Selective Suspend Setting > Disabled

If you want a quick workaround fix, you can just use Microsoft Powertoys’ Awake feature

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All the power setting have been reviewed extensively - including this item - which was wreaking havoc with my audio interfaces.

To be clear - the only setting in this plan that was not addressed (originally) was in my opening post:



The only way I could get this value to show in my Power Plan was to use Power Settings Explorer and expose it.

Now - on the Win 11 box - this timeout value IS bang on - the machine goes right back to sleep after 2 minutes of no activity.

But this setting is identical to the Win 10 machine here - and that one wakes up and stays up - regardless of this two minute setting- which is exactly what I want.

S

Edwin said:

What about just removing the setting from Power Options?

Performance & Maintenance - Add System unattended sleep timeout to Power Options in Windows

How to Add or Remove "System unattended sleep timeout" from Power Options in Windows The System unattended sleep timeout power setting is the idle timeout before the system returns to a low power sleep state after waking unattended. System unattended sleep timeout is set to two minutes and...

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This tutorial does what it says - but the setting is not actually removed (as in stripped from the system) - just hidden from view.

This setting (and many many more) are built right into the power subsystem. You can get a fascinating look under the "power" hood by using the Power Settings Explorer tool (easily found on the Internet).

I was astounded by what we cannot see - after you give this tool a whirl.

S

Your screenshot keeps showing 2 as the setting for unattended, but I’m assuming you set it to 0 to disable it and it keeps sleeping?

dacrone said:

Your screenshot keeps showing 2 as the setting for unattended, but I’m assuming you set it to 0 to disable it and it keeps sleeping?

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Haven't changed anything yet. That initial screenacap was simply to see what that "hidden" value was on the Win 11 machine (2). But when I found out the same setting with the identical value - is also set on this Win 10 machine - and it behaves exactly the way I want it to - that is the mystery.

To be honest - I have never given any of these obscure power settings a single thought over at least 7-10 years with my last 2-3 builds of my studio machine. I simply set S3 in the BIOS - kick in the High-Performance Power Plan (in Windows 10) set it and forget it.

This machine then would wake at 5:10am - and stay awake all day if I choose - without ever touching a key or even going near the machine.

All (presumably) with this Unattended 2-minute timeout set over that entire 7-10 year period.

What it appears is that when you tell Windows 10 (via the Power Plan settings) to NEVER sleep - it actually listens.

But Windows 11 does not get that memo - I say Never sleep and it does what it wants anyway.

S

I discovered that unattended setting in windows 10 because I had the exact issue on 10 that you’re having on 11. Set it to a value of 0 and see if that resolves your issue.