Disable / Remove Windows 10 Sleep Study

Question

Please tell me how I can Disable / Remove Windows 10 Sleep Study

Windows 10 incorrectly identifies my desktop as a tablet, most likely because I am using a Dell touch screen monitor.  I want to disable and remove the "Sleep Study" and all components as it is an unnecessary drain on system resources.  Please note, this is a DESKTOP system with no battery, no need to monitor screen on times or sleep times.  I have tried everything I can find including stopping "ScreenOnPowerStudyTraceSession" in Performance Monitor and setting output files to Read Only.  Nothing works.  Please help.

Answer 1

I think we really should try to escalate this issue to someone who specifically knows about the sleep study application.  No, running under a different user will have no effect (DOES NOT, actually - I've already tried)  And no, there is noting wrong or corrupt with this installation.  My current build is 10.1709.16299.125  It doesn't really matter; the problem has survived several recent upgrades.  I guess I am wondering why we would keep trying things that really have no chance of solving the problem.. Do you have access to information about the application?  Why don't we try to look up the correct information rather than just guessing?  Since the last time I posted here there are more than 19MB of new but completely useless information stored on my computer...  Why?  Could we please try to find the actual information on how to disable the sleep study application?  Please?

Answer 2

Your suggestions have absolutely noting to do with the original question.

There is no reason for this "SleepStudy" to be creating an endless list of .etl files on my computer. I want to remove it completely from MY computer. Let me say that again: it's MY computer. I should have complete freedom to remove anything from it that I don't want on it! If doing so bricks my PC, so be it. That's MY problem since it's MY PC!

The takeown and ICACLS commands get me ownership of the folders but access to the ScreenOnPowerStudyTraceSession file is still denied. The takeown and ICACLS  don't work.

How do I unlock the SleepStudy folder and files so they can be deleted permanently?

Answer 3

What worked for me is removing the SleepStudy folder with pchunter (the quick and dirty method)

And then make a symbolic link with the same name to my ramdisk.

I was expecting my ramdisk filling up with these files but sleepstudy seems to have stopped making these files totally :)

Hope this works for you.

Answer 4

Having taken ownership of the 2 folders, I tried something I saw in another post.

"I found a solution for this problem, by setting "UserNotPresentSession.etl" to Read-only.

1. Go to: "C:\Windows\System32\SleepStudy".
2. Click the right mouse button on file: "UserNotPresentSession.etl" and then "Properties" from the list.
3. Check "Read-only" checkbox and save changes.
4. IMPORTANT: Restart your computer."

This didn't work when I tried it b4 taking ownership of the folders. When I tried to set the files to read only I got one of the usual you can't do that messages. However, having taken ownership of the folders, for some reason, when I set the files to Read-only it stuck.

When applying Read-only status I did NOT click the Apply button, just OK.  I restarted my computer with the explorer window still open. Don't really know if that matters. Now both files are maintaining the Read-only status and it seems no more ScreenOnPowerStudyTraceSession .etl files are being written. This may prove to be wishful thinking as I'm actually expecting the files to reappear at some point. Just a hunch. I'll confirm one way or the other in a little while.

Answer 5

As suggested, I reviewed settings at:

Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change Plan Settings -> Change Advanced Power Settings -> Sleep

SETTINGS BEFORE:

Sleep after: Never

Allow hybrid sleep: On

Hibernate after: Never

Allow wake timers: Enable

SETTINGS CHANGED TO:

Sleep after: Never

Allow hybrid sleep: Off

Hibernate after: Never

Allow wake timers: Disable

Then I deleted these files:

Windows\System32\SleepStudy\UserNotPresentSession.etl

Windows\System32\SleepStudy\ScreenOn\ScreenOnPowerStudyTraceSession-####-##-##-##-##-##.etl

(About 20 files here in the last two days)

And then rebooted...

Since then I have had five new .etl files appear.  Apparently the fix we tried didn't work.  (But obviously thank you very much for giving me something to try!)  Any other suggestions?

PS - I did recheck all settings; they held / did not revert back to previous values.