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Prevent Windows 11 from going to sleep after RDP session was closed

While there are several threads about Windows RDP sessions and sleep I could not find one matching my use case. I encounter the following situation. After I close the RDP connection to a Windows 11 ...
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Prevent sleep for RDP client [duplicate]

I am using 2 Windows machines, where I am connecting from one of them (client, Win11) to another (host, Win10) using RDP (mstsc). My client PC has settings for display to be turned off and PC to be ...
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Windows 10 laptop keeps going to sleep after a few minutes of idle despite power options

I have a laptop running Windows 10 and setup for RDP. I use the old app Terminals to RDP into the machine and the connection is fine while I am active. However, it keeps going to sleep after a few ...
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How do I put a Windows 11 PC to sleep over RDP?

If I try to use any of the GUI options on the remote PC (Start button, Start button right-click menu, Ctrl-Alt-End screen, Alt-F4 on desktop), nothing happens. And the shutdown command-line utility ...
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How to wake a PC when accessing it with RDP?

I have a CI329 Zotac PC with Win 10 Pro, that is to be used for occasional RDP access. It is configured to automatically go to sleep (simple standby, no hibernation) after a certain inactivity period. ...
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mstsc prevents standby windows 11

My Windows 11 has recently developed a sleeping disorder. This is the result of powercfg -requests: [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe RAIL Power Request [PROCESS] \Device\...
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Windows 10 server appears hung/asleep until user RDCs into the server

Background I have ten Windows 10 servers which are used to run regression scripts 24/7. There is another machine which has a controller software which sends scripts to be executed to the 10 servers. ...
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Why does my workstation fall asleep when I am connected to it via Remote Desktop Services?

So, I have a workstation at work, a Thinkpad. It runs Windows 10 Pro and according to the Balanced power policy, should sleep after 30 minutes when plugged in. I am now connecting to it remotely from ...
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Keeping Windows accessible for remote desktop

I have a Windows 10 PC that I would like to maintain accessible to remote desktop connections, at all times, no matter what. However, I can't seem to figure out the right combination of settings to ...
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Windows 10 going to sleep while on remote connection

I have a windows 10 desktop machine and want to run this machine for an infinite amount of time. To do so, the following changes are made on my machine. With this change, I expect my machine to run ...
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Windows 10 remote wakes automatically after sleep

I connect to a Windows 10 Pro machine via remote desktop connection from another Windows 10 environment. When I try to put the remoted machine to sleep manually (via the start menu power button) the ...
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Windows 10 RDP on VM is sometimes off

I am getting some trouble with a Windows 10 on a virtual machine with a client connecting using RDP. This week, everyday, not always the same moment of the day, the system is power off for no reason. ...
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Is it possible to make a PC come out of sleep mode remotely?

I have recently built a new PC at home and put Team viewer onto it so I could connect in remotely to install software whilst I was at work. The problem I'm having is, I forgot to turn off Auto Sleep ...
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How to Wake Computers For SSH and Remote Desktop Services?

I have a mix of Mac, Linux and Windows computers. I love being able to SSH into them and launch a remote desktop client, so that I can pretty much access all of my computers from one. The only problem ...
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Windows 10 won't wake from sleep for remote desktop

Windows 10 also won't run scheduled backups if it's sleeping. RDP and Acronis work properly if the computer is not asleep. Wake on LAN is enabled.
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