Policy

Turn on the ability for applications to prevent sleep transitions (plugged in)

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 Vista

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

This policy setting allows you to turn on the ability for applications and services to prevent the system from sleeping. If you enable this policy setting, an application or service may prevent the system from sleeping (Hybrid Sleep, Stand By, or Hibernate). If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting.

Internal name
ACCriticalSleepTransitionsDisable_2
Policy ID
8dbd83660944
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\B7A27025-E569-46c2-A504-2B96CAD225A1\ACSettingIndexREG_DWORD
1
0

Policy elements

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This policy has no additional user input fields.

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