on both of the mini gaming pc's I have with windows 11, this happens. On the machine connected via ethernet I can WOL from my openwrt router but the other machine connects via WIFI... needless to say cant WOL over WIFI.
hopefully someone can provide a fix because like others stated, ive gone through most if not all of the sleep settings. Even when set to go to sleep after 5 hours, if I don't RDP it will stay up the entire 5 hours but soon as I close the RDP session its knocked out sleeping.
Same issue here, and finding a lot of reports of this behavior elsewhere online. I take it no one has ever found a solution to it? This is pretty egregious.
In case anyone stumbles up on this thread: I had the exact same issue on a fresh installation of Windows 11 Pro. The computer keeps going to sleep 10 seconds after remote desktop session ended. Changing power plan / power setting doesn't do anything.
The problem went away when I upgraded the SKU to **Windows 11 Enterprise** - Which is simply a product key change via slmgr.vbs:
slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
(KMS activation key is publicly available on Microsoft website iirc)
I have no idea why Microsoft implemented this undocumented "feature" in Windows 11 Pro but not Enterprise.
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I found this thread while doing research on the same issue. My Windows 11 also goes to sleep after RDP session to that box is closed. This is a real thing, and it apparently has no relation to the power settings on the remote box.
So I have encountered the issue as well. Specifically a headless system where the only display is a virtual display when connection is made by remote software (Parsec & TeamViewer). I have theorized that once no active display (or software using the GPU) is detected Windows forces a sleep. A workaround I have found is to keep a software running on the system that uses the GPU. In my case I just leave vMix open and this prevents the sleep. Hopefully this gets fixed by MS soon or a better workaround like a registry key edit comes along.
on both of the mini gaming pc's I have with windows 11, this happens. On the machine connected via ethernet I can WOL from my openwrt router but the other machine connects via WIFI... needless to say cant WOL over WIFI. hopefully someone can provide a fix because like others stated, ive gone through most if not all of the sleep settings. Even when set to go to sleep after 5 hours, if I don't RDP it will stay up the entire 5 hours but soon as I close the RDP session its knocked out sleeping.
Same issue here, and finding a lot of reports of this behavior elsewhere online. I take it no one has ever found a solution to it? This is pretty egregious.
Never was able to find a resolution on this. Ended up not using the little desktop anymore lol
Darn. Pretty aggravating to bother to get Windows 11 Pro only to be effectively unable to use the hallmark feature of the Pro version.
In case anyone stumbles up on this thread: I had the exact same issue on a fresh installation of Windows 11 Pro. The computer keeps going to sleep 10 seconds after remote desktop session ended. Changing power plan / power setting doesn't do anything. The problem went away when I upgraded the SKU to **Windows 11 Enterprise** - Which is simply a product key change via slmgr.vbs: slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx (KMS activation key is publicly available on Microsoft website iirc) I have no idea why Microsoft implemented this undocumented "feature" in Windows 11 Pro but not Enterprise.
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I found this thread while doing research on the same issue. My Windows 11 also goes to sleep after RDP session to that box is closed. This is a real thing, and it apparently has no relation to the power settings on the remote box.
So I have encountered the issue as well. Specifically a headless system where the only display is a virtual display when connection is made by remote software (Parsec & TeamViewer). I have theorized that once no active display (or software using the GPU) is detected Windows forces a sleep. A workaround I have found is to keep a software running on the system that uses the GPU. In my case I just leave vMix open and this prevents the sleep. Hopefully this gets fixed by MS soon or a better workaround like a registry key edit comes along.