Keeping your computer on for several hours can damage your machine. With the screen saver, you can easily avoid the partition damage on your monitor. Many times, the problem gets solved upon a simple restart. But if it doesn’t, you can follow our guide and follow the instructions starting from the top.
Solution 1: Unplugging External Devices
In many cases, Windows 10 screensaver doesn’t come into play because a lot of external devices are connected to your computer and keeping it awake. The external devices might be transferring data or getting powered by your computer. You should try unplugging all the devices from your computers such as Xbox, PS or Xbox controllers etc. Restart your computer and test if this solution solved the problem.
Solution 2: Updating Windows
Windows roll out important updates targeting the bug fixes in the operating system. One of the bugs is our case; your computer won’t go into screensaver mode. If you are holding back and not installing the Windows update, we strongly recommend that you do. Windows 10 is the latest Windows operating system and new operating systems take a lot of time to get perfect in every regard. There are a lot of issues still pending with the OS and Microsoft rolls out frequent updates to target these issues.
Solution 3: Resetting Power Management Settings
Every PC has a power plan available which directs it what to do for example the screen saver time might be different when your computer is plugged into power as compared to when it is running in battery. There are a lot of options which can be edited separately on each power plan. It is possible that the settings for the screen saver are changed in your power plan along with other modifications. We can try restoring all power settings to default and check if the problem at hand gets fixed.
You can also navigate to the power options by pressing Windows + R to launch the Run application and typing “control panel”. Once in the control panel, click on “power options” if your control panel is in icon mode or search for power options at the search bar present at the top right side of the screen. Open the first result which comes forward.
Solution 4: Checking if your Screensaver works
We can check if your screen saver utility works by navigating to the screen saver page and checking it manually.
If your Windows is updated to the latest version, you might now find the settings of the screen saver on the default location as in the past. Follow the steps below.
Solution 5: Changing your Network Adapter Wake-Up Settings
Most of the devices connected to your machine have the authority to keep your computer awake on their own. Although this feature might be used so no data transmissions are missed, it can be a pain if your computer doesn’t go into screensaver mode at all. We can try disabling these settings and check if our problem gets fixed.
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