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👓Outlook for Windows (olk.exe) prevents energy-saving mode?
🔸 I am actually of this opinion and have been since an update of Outlook for Windows in December 2024. A support ticket brought no success with a reference to offline mode (switch on and off or vice versa).
🔸 An appeal in the community was also unsuccessful. The note that you should close Outlook for Windows if you want to use energy-saving mode is .... specific.
🔸 After doing some research (with Copilot and the community, of course), I discovered that powercfg offers many more settings.
⏩ Workaround
🔸 Power management behavior olk.exe (Outlook new):
powercfg /requestsoverride /PROCESS olk.exe SYSTEM
🔸 Undo power management behavior olk.exe (Outlook new):
powercfg /requestsoverride /PROCESS olk.exe NONE
It has been quiet for 2 days and olk.exe goes into energy-saving mode (hibernation, standby) as “agreed” in the energy settings.
Maybe this will help, according to the motto Hashtag#sharingiscaring.
The following motto also applies: Use at your own risk 😙
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More info on power management is here -
Powercfg command-line options | Microsoft Learn
Did you try setting the app to never run in the background?
Many thanks Diane
Thanks for the link, which of course I know.
Yes, I had tried these background authorizations without success.
Link was for people seeing your thread who wanted learn more... and I wanted to confirm if the background permissions were checked, mostly for people finding the thread, but also so I know if it made a difference if someone asks. :)
