Youtube won't let my PC to sleep

Question

I see that there are many people looking for a way to prevent sleeping when they are watching a video, like this one. I am sorta opposite. With the help of

powercfg -requests

I have determined that my system is blocked from sleeping by VIA HD Audio device. That is, my PC did darkened the screen but kept system running when this device was used. After I have updated its driver, I noticed that powercfg complemented the audio device with chrome.exe, which now blocks the screen whenever youtube is played. So, now, PC does not even switch the screen to pretend that it is sleeping. Should I disable the audio/video devices or there is a better option that respect sleep timeout in Windows 10?

Answer 1

Ok, internet knows about this issue. We need to disable Allow Applications to Prevent Automatic Sleep in the Local Policies Editor. If your are happy users of other than Home Windows editions, you can even try to do it.

Answer 2

You can try

POWERCFG /REQUESTSOVERRIDE PROCESS "\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" SYSTEM AWAYMODE EXECUTION

At least the display should be put in sleep mode correctly. For the box you need to edit the power saving settings to match the video length.