Subject basically says it all, after upgrading to Windows 10, I set the sleep button on my keyboard to shut off the monitors in windows power options but the machine keeps running because of some always on services I have it doing, however I've noticed it appears that displayfusion continues to update the desktop background even while the monitors are off.

Granted, it isn't a particular inconvenience, it just doesn't really accomplish anything to cycle through random wallpapers every 60 minutes while if the monitors are going to be off for 8-10 hours at a time. I used to have to use an application to shut off my screens, which I applied the "do not update desktop wallpapers while this application is running" compatibility setting accomplishing the same thing. Unfortunately those applications don't play well with Windows 10, and the built in option to shut off the monitors made them unnecessary anyway.

I checked the various settings related to wallpaper updates and advanced/compatibility settings and I didn't notice anything suggesting there was an option to do this, although I could have missed it.

Thanks.

It is possible, I can't be sure how many times the wallpaper has changed since I put the monitors to sleep, I only know that the images are different when I wake up the monitor (they used to transition shortly after the monitors woke up).

Files are attached. I put the monitors to sleep at 16:11, and woke them up at 16:14.

Any progress on fixing this? It's a problem on Win7 also.

When the images are stored locally it is not so much of a problem traffic-wise. But when the source is a website, DF could be using bandwidth and those remote resources for many hours a day to display images on a monitor that is asleep or turned-off.

Would it be possible to write a script that reads the power settings to get the "sleep" and/or "power off monitor" times, trigger that whenever the screen saver starts, and then automatically disable wallpaper changes after that time has elapsed?

This won't detect a hard power off using the monitor power switch, but will if the monitor state is controlled by the computer.

This gets to the problem indirectly while still accomplishing most of the original goals.

Do you mean do I have it setup to require a password to come out of screen saver or monitor-sleep mode? No.

On my computer what I've noticed is that the wallpaper does indeed stop changing while the screen saver is running. It is when the screen saver time ends and the monitor goes to sleep that the wallpaper starts changing again. (I see this two ways, monitoring the server drive that provides wallpaper, and on the computer itself if I use the mouse/keyboard to "wake" the monitor, the local bandwidth meter shows regular downloads at wallpaper-change-time intervals.)

I'm guessing that you are looking for "the other end of the trigger," if you will, so you know to stop the script that is disabling the wallpaper changing, and restart it? Is there a trigger function for any keyboard/mouse activity? If so, that would work. There are a couple polling scenarios that might work alternatively, but I don't want to get ahead of myself here.

A workaround I have been using is locking the workstation when I am going to be away for an extended period of time. The wallpapers do not update while the lock screen is showing even if the monitors are on, and it also has the benefit of shutting off the monitors after one minute of no input so the screens stay off more if someone or something bumps the mouse or keyboard while I am away. It takes half a second to hit the windows key + L, so it works pretty much perfectly.

Yes, the Win+L key combo works, but I work in a home office so I have no need to lock my computer.

Still waiting for an answer from Keith as to whether a script is possible.