Windows 10: My laptop turns off the screen in 2 - 3 minutes.

This is fairly new behavior. I had changed power options to turn off the screen from 2 hours down to 1 hour when this began. What have I done wrong?

I only use the laptop plugged in so I didn't change the battery part of the power option.

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My laptop sleep 3 min and under

But my laptop settings is 10 minute turn off screen and sleep is 15 minutes. But after 3 minutes it sleep itself without turning off the screen first. I hate my laptop sleep quickly because i have lot of work. So i set it on 10 minutes. But why my laptop
sleep itself under 3 minutes?

 

Turning Off ScreenWindows 10 on Dell Inspiron 14Z laptop. I set the screen to go off after 1 minute when plugged in. It never goes off.

Thank you for your reply.

Answers to your questions:

All computers are running W10.

1.) Turning off the screen on my wife's Dell Inspiron 1525 after 15 minutes works perfectly. My Dell desktop XPS 400 and my Dell Inspiron 14z have never worked at all.

2.) Yes, I have tried 10 and 15 minutes on my desktop and my laptop. Neither has ever worked to turn off the screen.

3.) a week ago I set my wife's laptop to turn the screen off after 15 minutes; works great. I first tried setting both my desktop and my laptop to turn the screen off 2 days ago. Neither has ever worked.

Current Power & Sleep Settings:

My Dell XPS 400 desktop: Turn screen off = 15 minutes; Go to sleep = Never

My Dell Inspiron 14z = On battery turn screen off = 5 minutes; Go to sleep = 5 minutes. (It's always plugged in.)

My Dell Inspiron 14z = Plugged in turn screen off = 15 minutes; Go to sleep = Never.

Hope that helps.

 

Look at the drop-down menus in the advanced settings to the left

 

What power plan are you using, High Performance, Balanced? Look in the power plan profile to change the advanced power settings. You will find settings for display, adapter, etc., if it says 3 minutes change it by clicking on it and using up or down arrows.

 

Putting my power plan to balanced seems to have resolved my problem.

Thanks for the helpful replies.
Richard