Policy

Allow applications to prevent automatic sleep (on battery)

This policy setting allows applications and services to prevent automatic sleep. If you enable this policy setting, any application, service, or device driver prevents Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep after a period of user inactivity. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, applications, services, or drivers do not prevent Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep. Only user input is used to determine if Windows should automatically sleep.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategorySystem / Power Management / Sleep Settings
Policy IDa54cca70c185
Internal nameAllowSystemPowerRequestDC

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\A4B195F5-8225-47D8-8012-9D41369786E2\DCSettingIndex (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\A4B195F5-8225-47D8-8012-9D41369786E2\DCSettingIndex (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows applications and services to prevent automatic sleep. If you enable this policy setting, any application, service, or device driver prevents Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep after a period of user inactivity. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, applications, services, or drivers do not prevent Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep. Only user input is used to determine if Windows should automatically sleep.

Related policies

Allow applications to prevent automatic sleep (plugged in)Allow automatic sleep with Open Network Files (on battery)Allow automatic sleep with Open Network Files (plugged in)Allow network connectivity during connected-standby (on battery)Allow network connectivity during connected-standby (plugged in)Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (on battery)Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (plugged in)