Windows 10: power & sleep setting

My desktop computer system is Windows 10 Pro.The options for turning off the screen and/or putting the computer to sleep, are stated as time setting since plugged in. Is it possible to change the “since plugged in” to “after not in use”?

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windows 10 power and sleep settings ignored

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand that you are facing issues with the Windows 10 Sleep, we will look into this for you. However, in order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

• What is the make and model of your system?

• Was there a major change or an update on your system, prior to which you weren't facing this issue?
  
  
  

Meanwhile, this issue could be related to the Hybrid sleep and the Fast Startup. Hence, I would suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it works for you.



Steps to turn off Hybrid Sleep:

1. Click on Start icon.
2. Type Control Panel and press Enter.
3. Click on Power Options, then click on Change plan settings.
4. Click on Change advanced power settings and expand
   Sleep option.
5. Now expand Allow hybrid sleep and then change settings to
   Off.
6. Click on Apply and then OK.

Steps to turn off Fast Startup:

1. Click on the Start icon.
2. Type Control Panel and press Enter.
3. Click on Power Options.
4. Click on Choose what the power buttons do.
5. Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
6. Under Shutdown settings, uncheck the Turn on fast startup box.
7. Click on Save changes. This will turn off fast startup.

Restart the system and check if the issue still persists.



We would also like you to open command prompt (Admin) after the PC wakes up. (Type in Windows search
CMD and then right click on it, select Run as Administrator)



Then type the command as mentioned in the /lastwake & /energy
section from this Powercfg command-line
options article.



We await your response.



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Computer Sleep Option Missing in Settings

The Settings Power and Sleep menu in Settings should list Screen and Sleep, where Sleep is used to tell when the PC goes to sleep. Sleep is missing, so my computer never sleeps. Fast startup and Hibernate are not enabled. I used Tutorial Add or Remove Sleep in Power menu in Windows 10 to change the registry while in administrative mode, but sleep still is not seen. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FlyoutMenuSettings now lists :1: It was 0 before the change.

I cannot get a large image, so will type Default REG_SZ (value not set) ShowHibernate REG_DWORD 0X00000000 (0) ShowLockOption REG_DWORD 0X00000000 (1) ShowLockOption REG_DWORD 0X00000000 (1) I used Option 3 to add sleep using the Group Policy Editor. The steps seemed to work fine, but sleep is still missing. I’m using a “new” refurbished Dell T3500 workstation with mbr running the current version of win10. I have a number of these computers, and the other all have the normal sleep mode . Any suggestions? Jim

 

Sleep

Hi,

This may happen due to its power plan. A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how computers use and conserve power. For this, we suggest that you reset and restore power plans to its default. kindly follow these steps:

• Open the Command Prompt (Admin).
• Copy and paste the command below into the command prompt, and press
  Enter:
  • powercfg -restoredefaultschemes
• Close the Command Prompt window, and then restart your PC to apply the changes.

After that, go to Power & sleep settings
by typing it into the Windows Search. Check the When plugged in, PC goes to sleep after
settings is set to Never.

Let us know if the steps above helped you to resolve the issue.