I have a fresh install of windows 11, though this was an issue with win10 too. I also have an OLED monitor.

I have to always turn the monitor off entirely when not using it unless I shut down the computer- otherwise, windows will leave the screen on, even when locked (and even if I initially sleep it completely. Maybe my cats bump the mouse in the evening and it wakes up forever)

With an OLED this contributes to pretty bad burn in. I tried telling it to turn the screen off after one minute, with no effect….

Any tips? I once setup some scripts to force sleep, but that really doesn’t seem the right solution here.

I do have windows hello enabled, but even disabling that doesn’t seem to help. It happens both on a lock screen and when I leave it alone on the desktop.

Thanks for any tips

  • Virtual Insanity
    1•11 months ago

    Same issue here, and I know a few people that have it on most cases LCD, not OLED, but I funny think that’s relevant.

    The mechanism for turning a display off is to simply stop sending a signal.

    There was a time when I cared more and actually did into it and windows 10 and 11 do have issues going into standby in in some configurations, with some hardware.

    I once pinned down a console command that could actually tell you (cryptically of course) what things were going on that prevented standby or sleep.

    Comes as no surprise that Linux does this better… But sadly I’m my case I couldn’t use Linux.