Still, you can resume your work quickly by pressing any key, or move the mouse or touchpad. Defined in the power plan active currently, this default setting let the operating system go into sleep, drawing a very small amount power. When your device is on AC power, the same thing will happen in 10 minutes. In Windows 10, the sleep mode, which is also a low-power state available for setting, comes in handy, especially when you are using a notebook or tablet and wanting to extend its battery life.īy default, when your device is on batter, your Windows 10 will activate the sleep mode if you haven’t done anything with it for 5 minutes. Pick the one that works best for you, also checking that your setting for putting the computer itself to sleep is appropriate for your usage (I recommend against “Never” if you’re on a laptop, btw, but that’s fine for a desktop system).Īll good? Click “Save changes” and you’re done.How to Change Sleep Settings on Windows 10? You might well want “Balanced” instead.Įither way click on “Change plan settings” on the plan you’ve selected, and you’ll see exactly what you can fine tune to make the screen sleep more slowly:Ĭlick on the current value for turning off the display and you’ll see that there are a ton of options, ranging from a minute or two to “Never”, which is probably a bad idea for your screen’s health. I prefer having my system run fast even at the cost of some battery life, so I always choose “High performance”. Now you’ll see that you can set your “Power Plan” for your Win7 system: Or click around to ascertain that “System and Security” is the right area and click on the green section title words System and Security.Īgain, a bit bewildering, but find Power Options, the fifth section, and click on it. This is where things can be a bit confusing with so many choices, but notice that you can use the top right window to search for a specific control panel if you want. You can also use the search feature but let’s aim for the fastest solution, yes? In Win7 it’s all accessible off the Start Menu:Ĭhoose Control Panel on the right side of the Start Menu. In other words, how quickly does your display sleep and how quickly does your computer sleep? Still, whether you’re running Win7 or an early release of Windows 10, it’s important to customize your energy profile - as it’s now known - to match your usage patterns. Heck, back in the day, you could get programs that would fake activity so that you wouldn’t lose your (modem) connection with a server like America Online (AOL) or CompuServe. 🙂Īll modern operating systems have had the ability to put your components to sleep and to even power down the computer itself after a certain period of inactivity. That’s rather retro of you, though not as bad as if you’d have asked me about Windows XP, I suppose.
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