covering the week's top tech stores with a slight linux bias having trouble sleeping the latest windows 10 cumulative update breaks sleep mode causing laptops around the world to become insomniacs we have the fix to yet another microsoft update blender microsoft september 2020 optional update seems to be causing some trouble for those who are running windows 10 version 2004 while the update comes with fixes for critical issues and improvements like many of microsoft's previous cumulative updates this one is far from perfect some users are reporting that the optional update broke windows 10 sleep mode with the update installed some users are reportedly facing an issue where their pc keeps waking up from sleep mode one user states on feedback hub when i close the lid press the power button or select sleep in the power menu or the win x menu instead of sleeping the screen simply turns off and my laptop does not go to sleep even after leaving it alone all night similar complaints can also be found on microsoft's forum website what's worse is that at the time of broadcast there isn't a fix available from microsoft there's a temporary solution available if you're affected though it's a bit hacky and reminiscent of the old up down down left right game hacks of the 90s first you need to stop the windows update service then start it again then restart it then do a check for updates and install the pending updates once they're in reboot your computer and you should be good to go with a working sleep mode you