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Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:57:35 +0000

Hi Andy,

Good to know that this command can also help with things like that. I didn’t realise that it would highlight stuck print jobs.

Glad you got it sorted.

Cheers,
Alex

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:14:55 +0000

Your command “powercfg /requests” helped me find an old defined printer that still had a print job stuck. Removed that printer and all is well. Thanks

Comment on Who needs a progress display? by Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:13:19 +0000

It really is remarkable. I installed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview recently as a test, but I forgot to check what they’ve done with the defrag functionality. Damn!

Anyway, the simple answer is definitely to install Piriform’s Defraggler. It’s great and gives you very solid information as to what is going on.

Comment on Who needs a progress display? by Francesca

Francesca — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:47:51 +0000

I agree, I want to know when I can switch the computer off without wasting hours of defragmenting time by cancelling it as the computer shuts down. I also have a suspicion that my defragmentation is not working the way it should be. The graphics at least show that.

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:56:34 +0000

Hey there,

Brilliant. I’m very glad it was of assistance to you :)

Cheers,
Alex

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Monday Yen

Monday Yen — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:19:50 +0000

Thanks!!! my laptop has a sweet dream now.. the problem was not same as yours one, it is not Window Media Player but other.. i check it out by using the cmd which shown by you at above, and i diable it just same like what you had done.

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:53:59 +0000

Hi Sholac,

That’s unfortunate. What is the output when you run “powercfg /requests” in an elevated cmd window?

Also, did you try to generate an energy report as suggested by David above. That might give you more information. It will dump the report to C:\Windows\system32\energy-report.html – to view this file in a browser you might need to copy it out of Windows\system32 though.

Cheers,
Alex

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Sholac

Sholac — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:45:42 +0000

Hello, I tried all of that, but still facing the problem.
After PC go to sleep, it just wake up same moment. Like nothing happened… :(

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:40:42 +0000

Hey Tom,

Brilliant! Glad to hear that sorted it out. I know how frustrating it is when the machine refuses to go to sleep so I’m delighted I was able to help out :)

Cheers!
Alex

Comment on Windows 7 can’t go to sleep by tom

tom — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:38:59 +0000

Thanks Alex. Fantastic. It finally has return to going to sleep on it’s own. It was driving me crazy for weeks. I had tried uninstalling the last couple of driver updates etc but nothing I tried had worked