Windows 11 Screensaver/monitor sleep not working? Try this!

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For days I've been reading posts about why my screensaver wasn't activating. After trying numerous potential fixes that didn't work, I finally found the issue on my system. I ran the following command as admin in Powershell...powercfg -requestsUnder the DISPLAY section was ...\steamwebhelper.exe, and under that it said "Video Wake Lock". This sounded promising! I killed Steam from the Task Icons and set it to not launch on startup. That did it. My screensaver is working again. I plan on reaching out to the Steam folks to see if they know why this started happening. I have not even been using S

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