forcomm.blogg.se - How to change when your computer sleeps

Specifies the duration of inactivity before the system automatically enters sleep after waking from sleep in an unattended state.įor example, if the system wakes from sleep because of a timed event or a wake on LAN (WoL) event, the sleep unattended idle timeout value will be used instead of the sleep idle timeout value. Sleep unattended idle timeout, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Server 2008 R2, and later versions of Windows. You have to allow your mouse and keyboard to wake up your computer from sleep mode by making some changes in your computer settings. I found this official link about this on Microsoft Docs which I thought might be helpful: The closest I could find to my problem was this, which is similar but not the same, and the solution doesn't work for me:

I would've thought this was a simple problem, but I've spent over two hours Googling etc for a solution.

Computer goes to sleep after a further ~15 seconds.

Computer stays on, crunching whatever data you've left it to do.

Screen switches off after a short delay (~30 secs).

Ensure "On resume, display logon screen" is off.

Open screen saver settings (Win-S, Change screen saver).

Set both "on battery" and "plugged in" change "Put the computer to sleep" to something high or "Never" (I have 15 mins for battery, 1 hour for plugged in, tried "Never" for both too).

Click change plan settings next to the current plan ("Dell" in my case).

I've got a Dell XPS 13 (9360) with Windows 10 Home.