Windows 10 offers various customizable sleep setting options, so your PC sleeps exactly the way you want. For example, you can set your PC to sleep after a predefined time period has elapsed. You can even make your PC fall asleep when you close your laptop’s lid.
In this guide, we’ll take a look at some of the Windows 10 sleep settings that you can tweak on your PC.
Choose the Idle Duration After Which Your PC Sleeps
When you configure sleep settings for your PC, the first option to define is how long your PC should be in idle mode to enter sleep mode. You can choose different options for both when your machine is plugged into a power source and when your machine is running on battery.
- Vula izicwangciso app on your PC by pressing Windows + I izitshixo ngaxeshanye.
- khetha isixokelelwano kwi Useto lwesikrini.
- khetha Amandla kunye nokulala ukusuka kwicala lasekunene ngasekhohlo.
- Define when your PC goes to sleep in the ukulala section on the right. Select an option from both drop-down menus depending on when your PC should enter sleep mode.
If you don’t want your PC to ever enter sleep mode, choose soze from both drop-down menus. This way, your PC never goes into sleep mode and always remains awake.
Put Your Laptop to Sleep When You Close the Lid
Windows 10 offers a sleep setting where you can put your laptop to sleep when you close the laptop’s lid. This is a handy and time-saving tip if you manually put your laptop to sleep mode while closing the lid.
- Vula izicwangciso app on your PC by pressing Windows + I.
- KwiNtloko isixokelelwano > Amandla kunye nokulala usetyenziso lweesetingi.
- khetha Izicwangciso zamandla ezongezelelweyo from the sidebar on the right.
- khetha Khetha okokuvala isiqhekeza kusuka kwibar yecala lasekhohlo.
- khetha ukulala kubo bobabini Kwibhetri kwaye Yiplage ngaphakathi drop-down menus for the Xa ndivala isimbozo ukhetho.
- khetha Gcina iinguqu at the bottom of the window to save your settings.
Prevent Your Mouse From Waking Up Your PC From Sleep
By default, Windows 10 allows your mouse or trackpad’s movement to bring your PC out of sleep mode. If you don’t want this to happen, turn off an option for your mouse in your PC’s Device Manager tool.
- Vula Qala imenyu, khangela Umlawuli wesixhobo, kwaye ukhethe Umlawuli wesixhobo kwiziphumo zophando.
- Yandisa Amagundane namanye amacebo okukhomba section in Device Manager.
- Right-click your mouse in the device list and select Properties kwimenyu.
- Fumana Ulawulo lweMandla isithuba kwi Iimpahla zefestile.
- Khubaza i Vumela le fowuni ukuba ivuse ikhompyutha ukhetho. Emva koko, khetha OK emazantsi.
From now on, when your PC is in sleep mode and you move your cursor, your PC will remain in sleep and won’t come out of sleep mode.
Disable Hybrid Sleep Setting to Prevent Issues
Hybrid sleep in Windows 10 is the combination of sleep and hibernation modes. This combination sometimes creates various issues on your system. To prevent that from happening, it’s worth toggling off this option on your computer.
- Open Control Panel on your PC. The easiest way to do this is to open the Qala imenyu, khangela Iphaneli yokulawula, kwaye ukhethe olo khetho kwiziphumo zokukhangela.
- khetha I-Hardware kunye nesandi kwiPhaneli yoLawulo yefestile.
- khetha Izinketho zamandla on the screen that follows.
- Find your active power plan and select Tshintsha izicwangciso zesicwangciso ecaleni kwesicwangciso sakho.
- khetha Shintsha izicwangciso zamandla eziphambili.
- Yandisa ukulala ukhetho kwi Izinketho zamandla window.
- Nweba Vumela ukulala okuxutyiweyo kwaye ukhethe Kucimo zombini Kwibhetri kwaye Yiplage ngaphakathi ukhetho.
- khetha Faka ilandelwe ngu OK ngasezantsi kwewindow.
Change Your Power Plan to Apply Different Windows 10 Sleep Settings
Each power plan on your Windows 10 PC carries different sleep settings. If you want to quickly apply a specific set of power and sleep settings to your PC, change your power plan to the one that has the sleep settings you want.
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- cinezela Windows + R izitshixo zokuvula i Run ibhokisi.
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- You’ll see the power plans available on your PC. Select the radio button beside the plan that you’d like to activate.
Your PC now uses both power and sleep settings from your selected power plan. If a plan doesn’t meet your needs, you can quickly and easily switch to another plan whenever you want.
Create a Power Plan With Custom Sleep Settings
If the Windows 10 sleep settings you need are not available in the default power plan, you can create your own custom power plan. You can copy the settings from an existing plan, tweak them to your requirements, and make a custom plan of yours.
- Nqakraza ngakwesokudla Qala menu kwaye ukhethe Izinketho zamandla.
- khetha Izicwangciso zamandla ezongezelelweyo from the right sidebar.
- khetha Create a power plan from the options in the left sidebar.
- Select an existing plan to copy settings from, type a name for your new power plan, and choose Okulandelayo.
- Cacisa display off and sleep settings, and then select dala.
- You’ll now see your newly created power plan on your screen. This plan is now in use and is the default power plan for your PC.
- To change your power plan’s advanced options, select Tshintsha izicwangciso zesicwangciso > Shintsha izicwangciso zamandla eziphambili.
Customize Your Windows 10 PC’s Sleep Patterns to Your Liking
Windows 10 comes with appropriate sleep settings enabled, but these don’t always match a user’s requirements. Luckily, you can customize these sleep settings to your own specifications and make the sleep feature function exactly the way you want.
And, if your Windows 10 PC still won’t sleep, there are ways to fix that issue.