Laptop power button and sleep settings

[Annorax]

Hi all,

I have a Lenovo W510 laptop with Windows 10 Professional. I see in the power settings that I can configure the power button to put the laptop to sleep when pressed. I have it configured as such but when I press the power button, nothing happens. If I manually put the laptop to sleep via the start menu, it sleeps fine.

Am I missing something obvious?

 

[Regedit32]

Hi Annorax,

Welcome to the Forum.

Can you do the following please so we can try and resolve your issue:

• In your Search/Cortana field type comm
• In the Search results locate and right-click on Command Prompt then select Run as administrator
• Click Yes when the User Account Control prompts you
• In the Administrator: Command Prompt console, type or copy & paste the following:

powercfg /GetActiveScheme

Press Enter key

Sample image showing result (Note this is one of three possible results)

Please post back what your result was.

For example:

GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced)​

Regards,

Regedit32

 

[davehc]

Did you make the option for both power and battery? Also, you do need to hold the button momentarily - about half to one second