

I found that sleep mode not working on Windows 8.1 laptop are mainly. UPDATE UPDATE: Ok, so it won't sleep sometimes when VLC Player ISN'T running, either. So I searched Windows 8.1 refuses to sleep on the Internet and finally fixed the. I came back to my computer and it was ASLEEP! Lawks! It seems that the only times it doesn't sleep is if VLC Player is open, even if a video isn't actually playing. UPDATE: Ok, so I now have a few more pieces of the puzzle. In short: How can I tell what's preventing my computer from Sleeping? Note: Even when /requests says that there's "NONE" under every category, my machine still won't sleep(!). I've checked my Wake Timers, and nothing: If it was actually the mouse keeping my system awake, I'm pretty sure the monitor wouldn't go to sleep.

Which is odd, because I haven't recently changed my mouse, and more confusing still: The monitor does go to sleep just fine. I've checked to see what devices are able to wake up my machine, but it only appears to be my mouse: That's since been disabled, so it's definitely not that: I was having issues a while ago, but it was with my network adapter. (I can still manually ask it to go to sleep without any issue.) Windows 8 is set to sleep after 30 mins, and it used to work, but recently it's started refusing to sleep.
