Windows 10: Power/sleep settings - are they normally erratic in their effect?

While watching a video replay on a Website it kept freezing after about 5 mins but would re commence after refreshing. I went into the power settings and changed the relevant display/sleep settings to ten mins. It then seemed to freeze after about 4 minutes! Changing the irrelevant display/sleep settings to ten minutes or so seemed to fix the problem. I changed the relevant setting for sleep to one minute; it went off around that duration and when I went back in there was at first no sound and a few attempted fixes resulted in no combination of steps getting it to pla

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PC will go to sleep even though the Power settings are set to Never in Windows 10.

Hello Ann,



Thank you for updating us with the status of the issue.



Since the Sleep settings are set to Default, I suggest you to make changes from the
Power options settings page and check if the issue is resolved.



Change the power settings by following the steps below and check if the issue is resolved.

• 
  Press Windows logo key on the keyboard, type
  Power options and select the top most search result.
  
• 
  Click on Change when the computer sleeps
  from the left side panel of the window and select Never option from the dropdown bar under both the options.
  
• 
  Click on Save Changes and check if the changes are effective.
  

Write to us with the status of the issue for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



Thank you.

 

Computer Sleep Option Missing in Settings

The Settings Power and Sleep menu in Settings should list Screen and Sleep, where Sleep is used to tell when the PC goes to sleep. Sleep is missing, so my computer never sleeps. Fast startup and Hibernate are not enabled.

I used Tutorial Add or Remove Sleep in Power menu in Windows 10 to change the registry while in administrative mode, but sleep still is not seen.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FlyoutMenuSettings now lists :1: It was 0 before the change.






I cannot get a large image, so will type
Default REG_SZ (value not set)
ShowHibernate REG_DWORD 0X00000000 (0)
ShowLockOption REG_DWORD 0X00000000 (1)
ShowLockOption REG_DWORD 0X00000000 (1)

I used Option 3 to add sleep using the Group Policy Editor. The steps seemed to work fine, but sleep is still missing.

I’m using a “new” refurbished Dell T3500 workstation with mbr running the current version of win10. I have a number of these computers, and the other all have the normal sleep mode .

Any suggestions? Jim

 

Sleep and Hibernate are unpredictable and erratic

@OldGrantonian : Sleep and Hibernate are unpredictable and erratic

A: This is true.



I don't use sleep or hibernate, but I have noticed that Windows Updates occasionally change some of the settings in my Power Plan. You may want to check that.