Win7 PC won't sleep on its own, but no "requests"/sleep blockers

SethPF

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Sep 12, 2013
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I know there are a million and one of these "my computer won't sleep" posts but I swear I've looked at them all!

My computer will sleep if I hit the sleep button or click Sleep from the Start->Shutdown menu AND after a restart when its on the log-in screen for the required amount of time, BUT NEVER when idle for the set amount of time after I've logged in.

When I type "powercfg -requests" in cmd all three categories show none (using powercfg -requestsoveride on /FileSystem/srvnet solved a previous insomnia issue, but I've since disarmed the wake functionality of the ethernet controllers to troubleshoot this new problem). Clicking "Show Sleep Blockers" in the MCE StandbyTool shows anywhere from 4 to 50 instances of Driver [J] and I have no idea what that is.

Please, any help would be greatly appreciated, I am completely out of ideas...
 

SethPF

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Not sure why I didn't think of this before but I closed every program that had a process running in the System Tray and voila! the Computer went to sleep on its own. Upon further investigation, it turned out that Belvedere was the culprit. I didn't think of it before because its also on the PC right next to it that sleeps fine, but it turns out that it had a few extra "commands" to clean up the download folder that apparently were causing issues. I removed all folders/actions and slowly added them in to fix.

I guess a take away might be that some System Tray programs/processes won't show up as a sleep blocker/"Requests" with the powercfg -requests command.