jimjim1
Followed your advice above. The issues turned out to be Kernel issue for sleep (with a few instances of "application API") and "Kernel Power" for resume (which was anyways always a manual exit from sleep mode). It confusingly now and again made a reference to hibernation (not possible on a Dell 7480 laptop). However it happens on most of my laptops (which are admittedly a bit aged), that they go and sleep whilst on a SLEEP NEVER schedule. The Powertoys AWAKE setting is useless and WINTOYS has no such option. Very Frustrating.