Every computer owner knows the feeling of leaving your computer to download a large file, simply to return to find your PC sleeping. Windows' sleep feature is very beneficial in many scenarios, but there are also times where it becomes an annoyance. Fortunately, you are able to control this behavior.

Windows sleep places your computer inside a low-power consumption state in order to save energy. Prior to doing so, it saves all of your activity. By sleeping rather than shutting down, users can get to work quickly and resume what they used to do. Microsoft shows that you only make use of the feature whenever you expect to be from your PC for some time, however the default behavior might place your PC to rest more frequently than you'd like.

There are a variety of reasons to disable the feature. Some think it is irritating to wait for Windows to wake up on older PCs. Others complain that it sleeps too often, like during a quick bathroom break or perhaps a visit to your kitchen. And of course, any large downloads can be suspended by sleep. No matter why you want to change this behavior, it's a pretty simple task and we'll walk you through it below.

How to Disable Windows 11's Auto Sleep Feature

1) To disable sleep, the very first thing you must do is to right-click around the Start menu icon.

2) Select Power Options. Came from here, you should get a window that shows you different power consumption settings.

3) Under the Power section, click Screen and sleep. Your window displays a list of different power states. The last two refer to how sleep behaves depending on your computer's source of energy.

4) Click on the dropdown beside "On battery power, put my device to sleep after" and "When connected, put my device to sleep after."

5) Select Never from both dropdowns. There you have it, your pc will no longer automatically sleep unless you manually ask it to.