How to Customize System Unattended Sleep Timeout on Windows 10

The system unattended sleep timeout is the time that a system takes before going to the state of sleep mode or hibernation in the unattended state. The time varies on the tasks running in the background. You can manage this time by customizing it with various steps and methods in order to let the device finish all the intended tasks before turning to sleep automatically.

There are two different ways provided by the Operating System of Windows 10 to customize the unattended sleep timeout of your device. This handy power option is used to execute the uncompleted task to finish as per the required schedule. There are two different ways to customize this feature:

1. Using Power Options
2. Command Prompt

Here are the guidelines to customize unattended sleep timeout on Windows 10 easily by following these instructions:

Customizing System Unattended Sleep Timeout via Power Options

• First and foremost, launch the Cortana and then enter “cp” into the search bar.
• After that, choose the best-prompted option from the resulting list.
• Go to the control panel and then hit the Power Options there.
• In the upcoming screen, you will be able to see all the active plans. Then, tap the Chan Plan Settings option appearing alongside the plan.
• After that, hit the second-most option that is “Change Advance Power Settings.” This option will be located in the lowermost section of your window.
• Tap on the option “Sleep” to expand other options.
• Now, customize the time and schedule for the unattended sleep timeout option. It is applicable for both the options: Plugged In and On battery.
• Once you have performed all the mentioned guidelines, then hit the OK tab to proceed.

Note: The time is set to two minutes as default.

Customizing System Unattended Sleep Timeout via Command Prompt

• At the start, launch Cortana search bar and then input “cmd” into the search field and then tap Enter key to proceed.
• Once the Command Prompt is displayed via resulting options, apply right-click on it.
• Then, run the Command Prompt with admin privileges by tapping on the option “Run as Administrator.”
• Note: users can launch the Command Window by any of the available alternatives.
• Once the UAC opens on the screen, hit the Yes tab as a mark of your positive consent. Then, press any of the two commands as per your requirements from the available two:
• Plugged In
• On Battery

Note: One can apply copy-paste operation or type it manually followed by the Enter tab to proceed.

• For “On Battery,” type or paste the following command “powercfg//SETDCVALUE_INDEX SCHEME-CURRENT-238C9FA8_0AAD-41ED-83F4/ 97BE242C8F20//7bc4a2f9//d8fc-4469/b07b_33eb785aaca0//X.”
• For “Plugged In” command, you have to enter this path: “powercfg //SETACVALUE_INDEX SCHEME-CURREN-238C9FA8_0AAD-41ED-83F4/ 97BE242C8F20//7bc4a2f9//d8fc-4469-b07b_33eb785aaca0//X.”
• After each command, you have to tap the Enter key to execute the command.
• To customize the time for sleep timeout of the device, you should replace the letter “X” in the command mentioned above with the number of seconds. The number of seconds in the listing will be calculated as round-off to the nearest minute on Power Options. The default time is two minutes.
• The feature of Sleep timeout provides efficient support to the users having Windows 10. If you have successfully set up the time slot or schedule it accordingly, then the power feature will take care of all the things running in the background. You have to take care of all the keys while typing the command of the respective function to make the customization successful.
• After you have customized the sleep timeout feature, then exit from the expanded window by tapping the close tab.

Source :- Sleep Timeout