GeneralLee,
Your computer is entering S0 Modern standby as soon as Power options turns the display off.
There are, in effect, four Power/Computer states for an S0 Modern standby [aka S0 Low power idle] computer
1 Computer on, Monitor on {Work can be done on the computer}
2 Computer on, Monitor off = S0 {The monitor turning off initiates S0 Modern standby i.e. idle}. S0 progressively shuts down user-initiated processes. No user-desired activities start, only MS-desired ones such as WU & their built-in email app.
3 Hibernate
4 Off
- You can read up on S0 Modern standby if you want to. It is an attempt to emulate smartphone behaviour by shutting off all non-essential activity once the screen is off.
- S0 progressively inhibits all user-initiated activity yet maintains MS-desired activity such as its built-in email utility & Windows update.
I think your immediate action needs to be to alter your Power options.
There is nothing simpler than doing this.
You can consider further actions later, for example:
- Set Power options to keep the screen on always but add in a black screensaver at NNN minutes so you don't have the screen staring at you all day.
- Keeping the display going off at NNN minutes but optionally sometimes running a utility that keeps the display on when you are doing certain jobs [my own utility for this is a batch file, it comes in handy sometimes even without the curse of S0 being involved].
- Disabling S0 and hoping that doing so automatically enables S3 Sleep in its place.
I went through several different stages in my approach to S0:-
- I adapted to S0 by using hibernation when I had been used to using S3 Sleep.
- When I got even more fed up with S0, I set my monitor to always stay on [it's the monitor turning off, as set in Power options, that starts S0] and I set a very dark screensaver to come on after a desired time so the screen wouldn't be staring at me all day.
- Eventually, I just used the tutorial to disable S0.
- - In my case, S3 Sleep remained disabled so I carried on having to use hibernation as a second-best choice.
- - In my case, Task scheduler would not wake the computer from hibernation but others have reported that theirs worked OK.
- - In my case, my WiFi adapter often fails to restart properly [no networks detected] when it comes out of hibernation so I run a little script to disable it then re-enable it after which it works again.
See also
Enable or Disable Modern Standby Network Connectivity - ElevenForumTutorials
All the best,
Denis
