How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep
Do you get annoyed when your computer goes to sleep when you leave it for just a few minutes? And when you come back, you have to enter your password again! and sometimes your game crashes and you lose your save. Having you computer go to...
Method 1 of 3:
Using the Settings App
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Picture 1 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Open the Settings app. Press the Startbutton in the lower-left corner of your screen and select the settings gear.Picture 2 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep -
Picture 3 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Go to System. It's the first category to the very left of the app. -
Picture 4 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Open the Power settings. Select Power and sleep from the left pane. - Locate at the sleep settings. They'll be under the "Sleep" header, which is below the power settings.
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Picture 5 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Disable sleep. Set both the dropdowns under "Sleep" to Never.- The duration which you can set after your PC should go to sleep when on battery, and on plugged in both states.[
Method 2 of 3:
Using the Control Panel
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Picture 6 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Launch Windows 10 shortcuts key [Win+X] to navigate Control Panel and click on it. -
Picture 7 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Find the Power Options. Click on it. -
Picture 8 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Click on the link 'Choose when to turn off the display' from the left pane of the window screen. -
Picture 9 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Select the link 'Put the computer to sleep' option. From there, you can choose the duration as per your requirement from the dropdown menus for On Battery and Plugged In. Make sure you have saved the changes before closing the window.
Method 3 of 3:
Using the Insomnia Tool (Third-Party)
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Picture 10 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Download the zip version of the Insomnia tool on your Windows 10 PCs from the below link, then your computer will not go to sleep till this application running.- Download it here: http://dlaa.me/Samples/Insomnia/Insomnia.zip
- More about the free software and geeky stuff can be read here: https://dlaa.me/Insomnia/
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Picture 11 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Extract the .zip file that you have downloaded. Once you unzip the file, you will have different applications with different bit operating systems. -
Picture 12 of How to Prevent Windows 10 from Going to Sleep Select 64-bit operating system. Double click on it in order to run the application. Then your computer cannot go to sleep while this window is open.
Update 04 March 2020
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