Policy

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

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.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategorySystem / Power Management / Sleep Settings
Policy ID8dbd83660944
Internal nameACCriticalSleepTransitionsDisable_2

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\B7A27025-E569-46c2-A504-2B96CAD225A1\ACSettingIndex (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\B7A27025-E569-46c2-A504-2B96CAD225A1\ACSettingIndex (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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