Monitor will not sleep when/after using remote desktop

Monitor will not sleep when/after using remote desktop After I remote into my desktop machine the monitor will not sleep again until I use the desktop locally. This started several months ago. Hard to say what changed since I don't think I immediately noticed a problem.
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"Original poster discovered a fix for this issue by adding a new monitor to the system. The new monitor was configured as the primary display, and the ""problem"" monitor as the secondary.

This indicates the problem was due to some corruption in the display preferences or monitor settings that got reset when the new monitor was added and/or when the displays were reconfigured.

Possible workarounds for the issue:

some registry hacking in the right place could reset the corrupted settings. (what's the right place?)
deleting the problem monitor's device entry from Device Manager and rebooting might force Windows to reset the corrupted settings."