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Control power to your display

AskWoody

February 09, 2026

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Mary Branscombe
3d

Windows is very keen to save your battery life or your power bill; sometimes that gets annoying but usually, if your PC keeps going to sleep when you don't want it to there's a setting you can tweak. For @askwoody.bsky.social I dig in to where all those settings live and what to change


https://www.askwoody.com/2025/control-power-to-your-display/
Mary Branscombe's avatar
Mary Branscombe
3d

I try to keep my AskWoody pieces at a fairly mainstream level and I can't always squeeze in some power tips, like making shortcuts to switch between power plans: luckily, some of the members in the forums love adding extra options for readers to try out


https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/control-power-to-your-display/
  • screen savers

  • power profiles

  • powercfg

  • process names

  • PowerToys Awake

  • Group Policy Editor

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/control-power-to-your-display/

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