Windows 8.1 - Stop Automatic Shut-Down, Sleep or Hibernate - Advanced Power Options and Settings

Windows 8.1 - Stop Automatic Shut-Down, Sleep or Hibernate - Advanced Power Options and Settings

Stop your Microsoft Windows 8.1 computer from shutting down ever 15 minutes or so, customize power options for closing laptopor notebook lid, pressing the power button, hard drive shutdown, display, and more.

Change settings that are currently unavailable. Show additioinal plans. Balanced, High Performance, Power Saver. Change plan settings. Choose or customize a power plan. Power options.

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Closed Caption:

howdy folks in this video I'm going to
show you how to adjust the power options
in Windows 8.1
we're on the Start screen here so what
you want to go to your desktop and then
travel over to the lower right-hand
corner of your desktop and travel up the
charm bar here until you can click on
settings and then go to control panel
ok now in the upper right hand corner of
your I'll control panel items window
here you have you buy so just select the
small icons next to you by and you'll
have this kind of the view here and we
want to click on power options here in
the middle
there's a couple of things to see here
one is you may have a link that says
change settings that are currently
unavailable go ahead and click on that
ok it gives you access to all the
settings now and you may also have show
additional plans so you can click the
little arrow to the right of that and
see if which one of these three plans or
however many you have set up on your
system is the one that you want to
select and modify
so basically in my case I don't want my
computer turning off at odd moments and
doing strange things when it's on I want
it on and when I hit the power button i
want to turn off not sleep or anything
so i'm going to use high performance and
i'm going to click on change plans
settings
ok now again here we may have to click
on change settings that are currently
unavailable
alright so turn off the display if you
don't like that turning off you can
choose never
or of course you can choose any other
available time here and under high
performance probably it already says
never put the computer to sleep but
again there are options
ok what we want to do here as well is
going to change
advanced power citizens ok and under
here for example you might want to tell
your hard drive not to turn off
again sorry at the top here change
currently unavailable right
so under the hard disk go down to 0
it's never great thing next to one there
so that will take away the delay that
you get when you walked away from your
computer and you come back and then
everything seems to be just waking up
even though your computer hasn't gone to
sleep that can help
right there other things again your
sleep settings
we have all our choices here so i prefer
them set to never but of course you can
set a number of minutes here and another
one that i often go into power buttons
and lid
okay so this isn't a laptop so there is
no lid setting but often enough
if you just want to be able to shut the
lid of your laptop so that you can move
your computer without your computer
going to sleep or hibernating
you can tell it to do nothing when you
turn your lid down
you know conversely if you wanted to
sleep or hibernate when you shut your
lid
you can make sure that that setting is
there and and then of course for the
power button often that will say sleep
or hibernate
but if you want to actually do a full
shutdown you can choose that and of
course there are many other areas here
such as display oddly this is that 15
even though I said it
up top by sports section of it apply or
save changes but there we go so now you
can explore these other choices that we
have in here but i'm going to click ok
and save changes and now my computer is
in a customized high performance mode
and won't be sleeping or the screen will
be shutting down when I don't desire it
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