This tutorial will show you how to change the settings of a power plan to customize how you want in Windows 11. A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a...
This tutorial will show you how to change when to automatically put the computer to sleep when idle in Windows 11. Sleep uses very little power, your PC starts up faster, and you’re instantly back to where you left off.
This tutorial will show you how to reset and restore specific or all power plan settings to default for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize...
Open Power & battery settings 3 Click/tap on Lid & power button controls to expand it open. (see screenshot below) 4 Select Do Nothing, Sleep (default), Hibernate, Shutdown, or Display Off for what you want in the "Plugged in" and "On battery" Closing the lid will make my PC drop menus. 5 You can now close Settings if you like.
Sleep is available in the power options menu by default in Windows 11, but you can remove Sleep from the power menu if wanted. You must be signed in as administrator to add or remove Sleep on the power menu. Removing Sleep from the power menu will not disable using other available options to put the PC to sleep.
This tutorial will show you how to change the default action to take when opening the lid of your laptop in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The lid open wake action specifies the action to take when the system lid is opened when waking (resuming) from sleep, hibernate, or modern standby.
This tutorial will show you how to change how long HDDs are inactive before automatically turned off in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Turn off hard disk after setting in Power Options lets you specify the period of inactivity before the disk is automatically powered down.
Enable or Disable to Allow Wake Timers in Power Options 1 Open the advanced power settings of a power plan you want to enable or disable wake timers for. This will usually be for your active power plan. 2 Expand open Sleep in Power Options. (see screenshot below) 3 Expand open Allow wake timers in Power Options.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off USB selective suspend for a power plan in Windows 10 and Windows 11. USB selective suspend is the ability to power down and later resume an idle USB device while the computer to which it is attached remains in the working state (S0).
8 In the right pane of Sleep Settings in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Allow network connectivity during connected-standby (on battery) policy to edit it. (see screenshot below step 2) 9 Do step 10 (always enable), step 11 (always disable), or step 12 (undo) below for what you would like to do.
