{"id":15166,"date":"2019-10-12T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T08:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15166"},"modified":"2019-10-12T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T08:03:05","slug":"fix-windows-10-keeps-going-to-sleep-after-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-windows-10-keeps-going-to-sleep-after-2-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Windows 10 Keeps Going to Sleep After 2 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 keeps going to sleep after approximately 1-2 minutes idle? This problem may happen even if an affected user changes all the display and sleep settings to &#8220;Never&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/set-windows-10-never-sleep.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/set-windows-10-never-sleep.png 599w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/set-windows-10-never-sleep-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To fix such sleep mode problem, you have to tweak a hidden system setting in the Power Options called &#8220;System unattended sleep timeout&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Fix: Windows 10 Keeps Going to Sleep After 2 Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the Windows + R keys together, type <strong>regedit<\/strong> in the Run box and hit Enter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">open the Registry Editor<\/a>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/regedit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9183\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Copy the following registry location and paste it in the address bar of the Registry Editor, and pressing Enter will take you to that location. In the right pane, double-click on the DWORD <strong>Attributes<\/strong>.\n<p><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Power\\PowerSettings\\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/power-settings-attributes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/power-settings-attributes.png 598w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/power-settings-attributes-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Change the value from 1 to 2 and click <strong>OK<\/strong>. This will make the &#8220;<strong>System unattended sleep timeout<\/strong>&#8221; setting appear in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-power-options-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Power Options control panel<\/a>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/edit-dword.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/edit-dword.png 333w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/edit-dword-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Registry Editor. Open the advanced settings of your current power plan, the &#8220;<strong>System unattended sleep timeout<\/strong>&#8221; setting should appear under the <strong>Sleep<\/strong> option. By default, it&#8217;s set to 2 minutes. You can change this to a longer period of time or 0 (Never idle to sleep).\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/system-unattended-sleep-timeout.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/system-unattended-sleep-timeout.png 406w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/system-unattended-sleep-timeout-275x300.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 keeps going to sleep after approximately 1-2 minutes idle? This problem may happen even if an affected user changes all the display and sleep settings to &#8220;Never&#8221;. To fix such sleep mode problem, you have to tweak a hidden system setting in the Power Options called &#8220;System unattended sleep timeout&#8221;. How to Fix: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4350,4352,4351],"class_list":["post-15166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-system-unattended-sleep-timeout","tag-windows-10-goes-to-sleep-after-2-minutes","tag-windows-10-keeps-going-to-sleep-after-2-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15174,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions\/15174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}