Sleep Computer in Windows 10

josephkarthic · 02 Dec 2015

hi shawn,

that was a wonderful tutorial..but I want to have a tweak exactly opposite to this..I want to have a shortcut or an item in action center to disable sleep whenever I want(for example when downloading a large file i dont want the pc to go to sleep so the download is not interrupted)

im sure this is possible..could you kindly help me in achieving this.

Brink · 02 Dec 2015

Hello Joseph, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

The computer should be considered active while downloading, and prevent it from going to sleep by default.

josephkarthic · 02 Dec 2015

Brink said:

Hello Joseph, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

The computer should be considered active while downloading, and prevent it from going to sleep by default.

Not sure what you mean by that, But even when im downloading if my sleep time is set to say 3 minutes its going to sleep and my download is interrupted..

So I found a tool called "Dont sleep" and it fixed what I was looking for..This tool is useful especially for tablets where the sleep time is always shorter to preserve battery..

Brink · 02 Dec 2015

I'm glad to hear you got it sorted. :)

Cliff S · 22 Sep 2016

An interesting video at msdn's channel 9 Defrag Tools#168: Defrag Tools #168 - Powercfg Sleep Study Channel 9

See also:

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk to Nashaat Soliman and Paresh Maisuria (program manager and developer from the Windows kernel power team) about the "Sleep Study" feature in the Powercfg tool, and how you can use it to diagnose battery drain issues on Modern Standby systems.
For related content on power management and analysis using Powercfg, refer to the following earlier episodes:

For additional details on Sleep Study, see this blog post:

Sleep Study: Diagnose what's draining your battery while the system sleeps

Timeline:
[00:00] Welcome and introductions
[02:55] Powercfg Sleepstudy requires a system capable of Modern Standby. What is this compared to traditional standby?
[07:03] You can specify a report duration (up to the last 28 days) and look at the resulting report file
[08:57] %Low Power State Time columns indicate how much the system was in the lowest power state during each standby session
[10:13] Click on a table row for details, including a chart of how often the system was woken up to do work
[15:38] Top Offenders list of who woke up the system
[17:15] Nashaat's system is an engineering sample which includes a special Energy Meter chip to enable more accurate power usage data (Jorge Novillo mentioned this in Episode #157 as well). Useful in debugging preproduction hardware.
[18:46] Example 1: TV capture device keeps the system from entering standby
[21:01] The list of devices we monitor, which are expected to be powered down during standby, is in a firmware table provided by the system manufacturer. We can see these in the report.
[25:44] Example 2: Standby settings configured incorrectly on the system. The Sleep Study report shows idle standby was disabled.
[29:29] Example 3: A particular desktop app which prevents us from entering standby for 5 minutes
[32:09] Pros and cons of Sleep Study vs. manual analysis via Windows Performance Toolkit

Sleep Computer in Windows 10

Sleep Computer in Windows 10

To Sleep Computer from Start Menu

To Sleep Computer from Win+X Quick Link Menu

To Sleep Computer from Alt+F4 Shut Down Windows Dialog

To Sleep Computer from Ctrl+Alt+Del Screen

To Sleep Computer from Sign-in Screen

To Sleep Computer using Power Buttons and Lid

To Sleep Computer from Command Prompt

To Change PC Sleep After in Power Options

To Change PC Sleep After in Settings