Specify the System Sleep Timeout on Battery

Specify the System Sleep Timeout on Battery

This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows transitions the system to sleep.

If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows transitions to sleep.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting.

If the user has configured a slide show to run on the lock screen when the machine is locked, this can prevent the sleep transition from occuring. The “Prevent enabling lock screen slide show” policy setting can be used to disable the slide show feature.

Supported on: At least Windows Vista

System Sleep Timeout (seconds)
Registry Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\29F6C1DB-86DA-48C5-9FDB-F2B67B1F44DA
Value Name DCSettingIndex
Value Type REG_DWORD
Default Value
Min Value
Max Value 4294967295
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