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Remember to click “Apply” and “Save” for these changes to come into effect. Try the following settings and your PC should NEVER go into sleep mode and freeze again

We identified the problem as being the mouse and the USB power saving settings for the mouse. This would often result in a hard-reset being required to bring the computer back to life, often resulting in a loss of data. We have found this to be a particular problem with Dell computers.Įven after telling the Dell PC to “Never” go into power saving mode it continued to do so, often freezing the PC in the middle of a program after the computer had been left unattended for a couple of minutes. The power saving options of the PC or laptop and Windows 7 do not sit happy with each other resulting in the PC going into sleep mode after just a few minutes of being left unattended. Some computers have a conflict with Windows 7.

Type powercfg.Does your PC go to sleep without warning resulting in data loss?.

Start > type Command Prompt > right click on Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator.

To also disable Hibernate mode (standby state S4) run powercfg.exe /hibernate off in an elevated command prompt:

This policy will disable all sleep modes completely. WinWaitActive( "Local Group Policy Editor") Since I needed to enable / disable sleep mode via Group Policy quite often, I created quick and dirty AutoIt script that opens Local Group Policy Editor and navigates to the correct GP:

If necessary also do the same for Allow Standby States (S1-S3) When Sleeping (On Battery).

Open Policy called Allow Standby States (S1-S3) When Sleeping (Plugged In) and set value do Disabled.

Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Sleep Settings.

Launch Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).

To disable sleep mode completely you can use Local Group Policy: