Does your PC go to sleep without warning resulting in data loss?

Some computers have a conflict with . The saving options of the or and 7 do not sit happy with each other resulting in the PC going into mode after just a few minutes of being left unattended.

We have found this to be a particular problem with computers.

Even after telling the Dell PC to “Never” go into power saving mode it continued to do so, often freezing the PC in the middle of a program after the computer had been left unattended for a couple of minutes. This would often result in a hard-reset being required to bring the computer back to life, often resulting in a loss of .

We identified the problem as being the and the power saving settings for the mouse.

Try the following settings and your PC should NEVER go into sleep mode and freeze again

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Remember to click “Apply” and “Save” for these changes to come into effect.

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40 comments to “My computer goes into sleep mode after 5 minutes. How can I stop it?”

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  1. James Kert - August 21, 2013 Reply

    Thanks for the advice

  2. Paul Hutson - September 5, 2014 Reply

    Thanks for advice thought pc was broken

  3. Gray Cavell - February 10, 2015 Reply

    Thanks so much John. This was driving me nuts! Till I found your solution

  4. Aidan - February 24, 2015 Reply

    Thanks u guys rock

  5. Bảo VN - March 1, 2015 Reply

    thank you friend !

  6. Ansell - March 11, 2015 Reply

    Thought I bought a faulty PC, manually rebooted for 2 months now, every 15 min, which made the PC UNSTABLE
    Thank you so much

  7. Caitlin Gunatheeson - March 16, 2015 Reply

    Thank u sooo much that helped me a lot

  8. vikash - March 28, 2015 Reply

    thanks guys u helped me lot

  9. Krishna - April 4, 2015 Reply

    Thanks a lot. It helped me to resolve the issue in a min

  10. Tom - April 12, 2015 Reply

    I have Windows Vista O.S. What mine has been doing & cannot seem to find an answer is that my personal computer will shut down after about 5-minutes ONLY if I shut it down previously using Sleep Mode. I get the Blue Screen when it crashes. What in the world could have caused this?

  11. Lee Huddleston - April 17, 2015 Reply

    So if I cannot get the monitor out of sleep mode at all HOW DO I accomplish any of the above solutions?

    • IT Guy - April 20, 2015 Reply

      Try another monitor 🙂

  12. arslan - April 18, 2015 Reply

    Thanks a lot its help me a lot i change my laptop battery and also get service from shop but this help men thank u again.

  13. Robert - May 15, 2015 Reply

    Thank you for this walk through. My computer going into sleep mode has been a royal pain in the butt. Now its fixed.

  14. Emma Louise - May 31, 2015 Reply

    Can’t tell you how much this has helped me. I was getting to the stage that I would preemptively tap the screen c.1mins before each 15min bloody time out!

    Thank you so much. 🙂

    Emma Louise

  15. may - October 30, 2015 Reply

    This doesn’t help. My pc still sleep after 5 mins. What do I need to do?

    • John Kirkby - January 27, 2016 Reply

      Please share some details on PC model and Operating System

  16. Abid Ali - December 18, 2015 Reply

    thanks alot..

  17. Candice - January 21, 2016 Reply

    I’ve done everything listed above, but the computer keeps going into sleep mode. Are there any other settings I can check?

    • Dawn Harwood - January 24, 2016 Reply

      didnt help me either still going to sleep

      • John Kirkby - January 27, 2016 Reply

        Please share some details on PC model and Operating System

    • John Kirkby - January 27, 2016 Reply

      Please share some details on PC model and Operating System

      • sufyian - November 7, 2017 Reply

        i have a desktop running windows 10 and a gpu amd hd 7770 1gb ddr5 my pc goes to sleep after 5 minutes of usage when i plug in the gpu but without it my pc can last forever but the gpu is not the problem as i took my pc and monitor to my friends house and it was working fine there. i can seem to figure out what the problem is could it be my multi plug? or my entire home it self?

        • IT Guy - November 7, 2017 Reply

          possibly a power issue, Try replacing power board or getting house checked by Electrician

  18. joseph - January 22, 2016 Reply

    not working 🙁 my pc sleep every 11 min. can you help me please…….

    • John Kirkby - January 27, 2016 Reply

      Please share some details on PC model and Operating System

  19. Phil - January 24, 2016 Reply

    In what world would Microsoft think ANYONE would want this setting to be set to enabled by default?

    “You know what I REALLY want from my computer?? A stupid feature in which it automatically sleeps after 2 minutes while I’m working on a math problem for homework. Yes, that would be supremely wonderful.”

  20. James Jenkins - April 13, 2016 Reply

    Fixed my problem. Good find on the USB settings! Thanks

  21. Gem - July 13, 2016 Reply

    This did not help. I ‘ve set everything to never. All the steps above are done but computer still sleeping. screensaver is already set to none. Still the same thing. I have a samsung np305v5a windows 7. I hope someone can help

  22. Frank - August 2, 2016 Reply

    thanks guys this post saved my sanity after many dead-ends on other sites. I was honestly going to trade laptop in, thinking it was on it’s last legs. cheers.

  23. trynodev - September 6, 2016 Reply

    My computer does not enter sleep mode until I choose the “sleep mode” option. The problem is that when I wake it up from sleep mode, it automatically got back into sleep mode after 5 minutes. The only way to stop it going in to sleep mode is to restart the machine. After restart, it stays out of sleep mode until I select sleep mode again, and when it comes out of sleep mode, it automatically go back into sleep mode after 5 minutes. This makes the sleep mode option worthless because I have to do a hard reset each time after I use it. I might as well just turn off my machine under these circumstances.

  24. Patrick White - October 19, 2016 Reply

    This is indeed a major problem that seems to have come from a Microsoft update that forces the standby – I have solved this issue simply by having media player play a song repeatedly in the background with volume at zero – this seems to keep the show going as long as I wish 🙂

  25. David B. Slatton - October 19, 2016 Reply

    The problem has disappeared.Thanks a million!

  26. Chetan Sharma - June 16, 2017 Reply

    My pc goes to sleep after 10 minutes because I work on an application which forces it to sleep. If i dont work on that application, it does not itself sleep.
    Please tell me how to stop the application to force my pc to sleep. Please.

    • John Kirkby - June 20, 2017 Reply

      Change your power settings n control panel …. to never go asleep

  27. tonny - August 9, 2017 Reply

    this works with windows 7 not windows Xp
    thanks for the support anyway but am having troubles with Xp

    • John Kirkby - August 11, 2017 Reply

      You should not be running XP…it expired years ago and is a major security threat. Suggest you buy a new machine with Windows 10

    • D Jay Cee - August 18, 2017 Reply

      who still uses XP? at least get to WIn 7! they will support till 2020.

      Oh, and i already knew this fix…i was wondering if there was anything new on this issue…i guess not.

  28. John The I dont now who - September 15, 2017 Reply

    it didnt help i turn on my computer i play games whatch videos every thing is gonig fine but every 5-10-15 minutes my monitor gets black an it say atention no video input,atention activating Sleep mode i move my mice i push every buton but it wount wake up (and im sory for my englis im croatian) HELP ?

  29. Kainat sipra - June 8, 2018 Reply

    I did all but not fixed am having this issue since yesterday using windows 8.1

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