The Microsoft operating system has a set of configuration settings to be able to manage power in the best possible way. This allows us to achieve greater energy savings, but also prevents faster wear of certain peripherals, devices connected to our equipment or hardware components. A clear example is the computer screen or hard drives, since the fact of being turned on for many hours a day, part of them unnecessarily, causes the useful life to be consumed much faster. To avoid this, Windows 10 performs an automatic suspension of the system when it detects that there is no activity for a certain period of time, something that, as we are going to see below, we can configure to our liking.
The truth is that for many people, this behavior of the system can be a very useful feature, however, for many others it may become a problem if, while they are talking on the phone, their equipment is suspended or they have to return to exit. this mode every time they get up from their chair at work. In these cases, it is best to disable the automatic sleep of Windows 10.
This feature is one of the functions or settings that we find within the power options of the Microsoft operating system. Specifically, it is the one that allows that after detecting a certain time of inactivity, the disks and the monitor are turned off with the firm objective of protecting the useful life of the same and consequently, helping with the energy saving of the equipment.
Now, if we are one of those who prefer to avoid this kind of “shutdown” of the system, it is best to deactivate it, something we can do directly from the system configuration page or from the power options.
Disable Windows 10 automatic sleep
From Settings
These are the steps to follow to deactivate the automatic blocking or suspension from the Windows 10 configuration page:
- We open the configuration page. From the Start menu and then we click on the gear icon or by pressing the Win + I key combination.
- We enter the System option .
- Next we select the menu option Start / shutdown and suspension.
- This will show us the Screen settings and suspend where we must configure the following values:
- Display -> When plugged in disconnect after, Never .
- Suspend -> When plugged in suspend the equipment after, Never .
From this moment on, our equipment will not go into this particular mode automatically even though it is inactive for a good period of time. Keep in mind that if we work with a laptop, the options that will appear on the Settings page are:
- screen
- When using the battery, disconnect after
- When plugged in, unplug after
- Lay off
- When using the battery, suspend the equipment after
- When plugged in, suspend equipment after
In this case, we must select the option Never for all options if we want to disable the automatic suspension of Windows 10 in all cases.
From power options
The other option is to go to the system power options from the control panel. For it:
- We open the control panel.
- We select the Power Options .
- Click on the option Change plan settings that appears next to the energy plan that we have activated.
- This will show us a window in which the same options will appear as from the configuration page. Therefore, we must indicate:
- Screen off : We set its value to Never.
- Put the computer in sleep state : We set its value to Never.
In case we have a laptop, we will be shown the options to configure the screen shutdown and put the equipment in this energy saving mode when we are using the battery or we have it connected to the current. In both cases, we must set to Never so that we completely deactivate the automatic suspension of the system.
Turn off the disk
In addition to changing the behavior of the screen shutdown, among the Microsoft operating system settings we find that our hard drive will turn off after X minutes of inactivity, something that we can also disable manually. For it:
- We open the control panel.
- We select the Power Options.
- Click on the option Change plan settings that appears next to the energy plan that we have activated.
- In the next window we select the option Change advanced power settings .
- We display the Hard disk option in the window that opens.
- In the Configuration field (Minutes) we set the value Never.
- If it is a laptop, then we have to do it twice, With battery (minutes) to Never and With alternating current to Never as well.
Enable the maximum performance power plan
If, in addition to preventing the computer from automatically suspending, what we want is to obtain the maximum performance of the operating system, we must activate the maximum performance power plan.
This plan is designed for servers or machines that need to work at full power. This power plan is based on getting all the possible performance out of the processor, memory, hard disk, etc. In this way we will avoid latencies in the processes and we will notice that the operating system works in a more comfortable way. We must bear in mind that this plan is not miraculous and that if we want to carry out high-performance functions it is very possible that we will have to replace some parts of our PC.
- To activate the maximum performance power plan we must follow these steps:
- In the control panel we will go to hardware and sound> Power options.
- Once inside we select Maximum performance.
This option will not be enabled if we want to do it on a laptop, since we will suffer a considerable increase in consumption. However, we can enable this feature by logging into PowerShell with managed privileges and typing the following command:
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Once we have executed the command we return to the power options and we can now select the maximum performance mode.
