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Notebook won't standby when idle

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jthg

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Basically, windows doesn't go into standby or hibernate after the set idle timeout.

Here's what I know and what I've tried:
-The screen does turn off after the specified time
-I can manually standby/hibernate the system without any complaints from windows.
-I've killed every process, stopped every service and disabled every hardware device I could, but that didn't solve the problem.
-I can still manually standby/hibernate after killing/stopping/disabling everything.
-Nothing related shows up in the Event Log.
-I found a command line utility that can standby the computer and scheduled a task to run that utility after 1 minute idle. The computer went into standby after one minute.

Any ideas on what the problem is? It just seems like windows is ignoring the power management settings...
 
Anyone know enough about windows power management to help me trace this problem? Is it possible that some application I installed silently disabled auto standby/hibernate?

To make sure it's not the control panel applet messing up, I ran powercfg /q everything looks fine:

 
Sorry for rezzing this thread, but for future reference (to those who might googling this same issue), I'm pretty sure that the problem was spyware. It seems like it made quite a few changes to my system.

What really pissed me off though is that although it's obvious that I had a spyware infection, non of the 4 spyware detectors I tried could even detect it. Are spyware detectors usually this useless??? Or could I have missread the following signs: executables in system32 named <random number>.exe that come back every time I delete it and attempts to access a website that doesn't seem to belong to any major corporation, something disabling taskmanager on bootup if I block a certain executable called per.exe from accessing the network, a key logger that I didn't install and of course, the random ad pops... The disabled taskmanager was really what got me looking into getting rid of the spyware. Before that I was being lazy and procrastinating on it because it didn't seem to do much except show ads 😉

Anyone out there want to defend spyware detectors? Cus it seems to me like they're just POS...
 
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