Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Windows 10 Idle Shutdown

In the instance that your Windows 10 machines shut down after being idle for too long despite the changing of the power settings. You can make a couple of changes in the power settings or within the registry to fix this issue.

Power Settings
Under Advanced Settings

Change Sleep to Never / 0

Registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\SettingAllowPowerSleep

set the value to 0