Windows 11 and sleep

[filthyfreak]

First of all, I must give my thanks for this developing this software, it is keeping my headset from turning itself off all the time which is a nuisance.

This issue has previously been mentioned here.

To summarize, SoundKeeper prevents Windows 11 from entering sleep mode. It is not an issue in Windows 10 or older operating systems.

I am not satisfied with the proposed solution of allowing Windows 11 to go into sleep mode no matter what is occurring on the screen, for example you could be watching a movie or Youtube video and the computer will go to sleep.

With Windows 10 updates becoming deprecated soon perhaps it's time to revisit this problem and implement a proper solution?

[vrubleg]

Microsoft needs to either provide a way to stream audio using WASAPI without blocking automatic sleep mode (that is currently not possible), or fix NtPowerInformation(SystemPowerInformation, ...) (that does not work on Windows 11).

I have ideas how to workaround it, but the priority of this task is low since I don't use Windows 11 yet, and there is a tiny hope that Microsoft could still eventually provide the required API in newer updates.

Manual sleep mode should work. For now, you can just set up a hotkey like Win+Ctrl+L that locks your desktop and switches your PC to sleep mode, and use it whenever you leave your computer for long time.

[Sipu]

You can use windows task scheduler to create an event based trigger for soundkeeper which runs it at logon and kills/runs it it on workstation lock/unlock optionally. There are a ton of other types of events that are available in the task scheduler for a new task that may be suitable to improve this use-case.

This is also a method i would recommend for running this in the first place instead of adding it to the start-up. This allows also the program to optionally die on workstation lock in case there are long term memory issues. I have this triggered to run at logon, but i personally don't need the lock/unlock events because this is a desktop that never sleeps :)

@vrubleg You could consider creating some pre-baked taskmanager tasks that users can import through their task scheduler as part of your package to help set them up and configure them, and updating the readme accordingly :)