Policy

Allow applications to prevent automatic sleep (on battery)

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategorySystem > Power Management > Sleep Settings
Supported onAt least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

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.

Internal name
AllowSystemPowerRequestDC
Policy ID
a54cca70c185
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\A4B195F5-8225-47D8-8012-9D41369786E2\DCSettingIndexREG_DWORD
1
0

Policy elements

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