This solution worked for me! We overthought it a bit too much. Thank you Torquemada.

I played with the settings which I felt were significant to my problem before posting the thread. Here's what I changed. If I'm missing anything please let me know.

P.S. It looks like you...

Desktop, not sure what you mean by changing the correct power plan. I'm changing the plan that I'm using.

Greetings, and thank you for reading this thread.

As the title states, my computer will turn off the display or go to sleep (not sure of correct terminology) when I go idle for a short...