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Instead of exiting and closing the whole Chrome web browser, you can try to identify the culprit which is running process that is making the power requests, preventing the system from sleeping, standing-by or hibernating. Or if you’re playing video or audio, such as on YouTube, web pages loading with Flash ads, video ads and audio ads, the output of the command looks similar to below instead: DISPLAY: \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe You can check if Chrome is using any power requests by opening a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges, and then run the following command: powercfg /requests
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The Chrome prevents and stops Windows system from going into sleep, stand-by or hibernation because one or more of the web pages (tabs), extensions or apps is using the system resources, effectively telling Windows that Chrome is still actively performing some tasks, and hence do not put computer into sleep, stand-by or hibernation mode.
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device can now sleep or hibernate, once Chrome window is closed.
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When Google Chrome web browser is running and opening with a single or multiple tabs, the computer cannot goes into low power sleep, standby or hibernation mode as per configuration and settings in Power Options of Control Panel or Power & sleep of Settings app, even though monitor or screen is turned off.