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Still sleeping reliably with no adverse effects, nothing else disabled that I am aware of. All this does is override SRVNET in the operating system. So even if there are remote connections to the computer, they will be overridden and the computer will be allowed to sleep. This apparently caused...

Standby helper didn't work for me, I tried various suggested settings but no luck. I have been following this thread for over a year and nothing has worked and I have tried everything here and elsewhere. But, I finally found a fix for my PC and it is rock solid and I've tested it repeatedly for...

John, I followed your directions and it doesn't work for me. It's in my notification tray and running in my processes. Any ideas? My machine is a chronic insomniac.

I have tried all of the fixes discussed here and elsewhere over the last couple of months and have been disappointed in a day or two when they no longer worked. I hope your fix sticks! A few days ago my PC started sleeping reliably for a day and I had made no changes, then it stopped again...

That's the part of this that baffles me. I have had many solutions that have worked for a while and then stopped. And, some have found permanent solutions that haven't worked for others.

Prism. I believe we have the same Dell XPS 8500. Would you please tell me what you have done? I'll try to replicate.

I too have have mostly given up on fixing my sleep problem, for now. I have put too much time into this without resolution. Disabling Skydrive has helped but is not the answer. Interesting that my PC will sleep reliably as long as I do not have a browser open. Any browser open will stop sleep...

Thank you John. I am logged on as an administrator. Group policy is available on Win 8.1 pro and enterprise and not on the home and basic version. For the versions below pro, Skydrive can be disabled in the registry by using the tool in this...

Apparently, the basic version of windows 8 that came with my PC that I upgraded to 8.1 does not have the group policy editor. Any suggestions on a work around?

Group policy does not come up in a search of the control panel.

I would like to try to disable Skydrive but I cannot access gpedit.msc for some reason. Is there another way to disable skydrive?

My new Dell laptop with Win 8.1 Sleeps with no problems without fail. This problem must be a combination of certain hardware and the OS that that causes the insomnia.

After using the new Realtek drivers for a few days, this solution is an improvement but is no longer reliable. It worked well for a day but now sleep works intermittently. There must be something in the OS that is overriding sleep. Until Microsoft fixes this I am beginning to doubt that we will...

Realtek

After following this thread and others, it looks like I have this solved this problem, for me anyway. I have a Dell XPS 8500 and have tried everything suggested here and elsewhere. The problem was my Ethernet adapter, a Realtek PCIe gigabit. I determined for sure that the Ethernet adapter was...

I followed your advice and it worked for a while and returned to not sleeping. I had same the result when I disabled IPV6. My PC does automatically sleep when I disconnect the Ethernet cable. SO you helped me determine that the ethernet card is the problem. I upgraded the driver for the card and...

No problems that I can see as yet. IPV6 box is checked in a windows 7 laptop I'm using as well as a windows 8 laptop I am using with no sleep problems. I suspect that it is bug in the 8.1 preview. How did you determine that IPV6 was the culprit?

I have been following this thread as well as others regarding windows 8/8.1 sleep issues. My PC hasn't entered sleep on its own since I installed Win 8.1. I think I have tried everything here and elsewhere to fix it with no results. I tried disabling IPV6 as suggested by VooDoo and its sleeping...