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Windows 7 will not go to sleep

morgan2476
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Registered: ‎13-08-2007

Windows 7 will not go to sleep

I have checked the power options in the control panel and yet the PC will not sleep after the preset times.  Any ideas what the problem is?
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sjptd
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Registered: ‎01-09-2014

Re: Windows 7 will not go to sleep

There are quite a few programs around that prevent sleep.  You can try using something like Task Manager or Process Hacker to kill one at a time to find the offending one;  rather a slow and boring process sadly.  If you have just installed something new and the problem started that is probably the reason.
I recently had this with a program called Air Parrot; I was able to pin it down fairly quickly because it was a recent install.
I don't know of any quick way to find out what has rejected a Sleep request: maybe there will be an indication in the Windows lots.
CX
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Registered: ‎16-09-2010

Re: Windows 7 will not go to sleep

Go to an admin command prompt and type
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powercfg /requests

That would be my starting point.
Anything not appearing in there is going to be harder to track down.