It is better to have sleep mode in windows 10 or hibernation mode turn on or active mode, it saves your extra battery life of your computer but sometimes as per your usage of your computer or laptop.
You may need to turn off or disable sleep mode in windows 10 or when your computer goes to sleep mode connected external drives or USB cable will also turn off when your computer goes off to sleep mode, so lets see how to turn off or disable sleep mode in windows 10 in details steps below.
If you follow below steps and turn off, your computer will never go to sleep mode again.
Here is the direct link which opens your system settings in windows 10 to turn off or disable sleep mode in windows 10 using ms settings to open power and sleep settings. ms-settings:powersleep?activationSource=SMC-IA-4027067
Turn off or Disable Sleep Mode on Windows 10 and 11
Step 1: Click on start menu and click on settings (gear icon)
Step 2: In windows settings Click on System.
Step 3: On the left side pane, select Power and Sleep
Step 4: On the right side pane, Under sleep settings drop down menu select when plugged in, PC goes to sleep after and select from drop down to Never.
Note: You can alternatively choose anywhere from 1 minute to 5 hours and never as well, as per your usage.
Step 5: Also from Screen settings drop down menu when plugged in, turn off after to and select never if you want the screen to display go blank to never as well.
Step 6: After changing settings close the windows settings.
That’s it, this is how you change or turn off or disable sleep mode in windows 10 or hibernation mode.
Also Read:
1) Enable Wake-On-LAN in Windows 11
2) How to Fix Windows 11 Crashes After Waking Up From Sleep
3) How to Fix Windows 11 PC Randomly Shuts Down Or Unexpectedly Shutdown
4) How to Fix Windows 10 Start Button Not Working
5) Enable or Disable Battery Saver Mode on Windows 10 or 11
Turn on Sleep Mode or Enable Sleep mode
Step 1: Open windows settings
Step 2: Select Power and sleep from left side pane
Step 3: On the right side pane, by choosing drop down menu change setting from never to 10 minutes or any timeframe you wish.
Step 4: Change the same with screen display when plugged in as well.
That’s it this is how you enable sleep mode or turn on sleep mode in windows 10 computer.
Windows 10 sleep settings not working?
If your are facing issues with power settings and sleep mode is not working even after changing settings then you need to update display drivers settings. Once you update display drive settings in device manager, your sleep settings will start functioning normally.