Preserving the battery of a laptop is an important element of its use, but you may not like that the screen is constantly turning off, so we will teach you how to make the screen not turn off in Windows 10.
Changing the screen timeout in Windows is not enough, sometimes it is understandable to do without this option altogether.
Since the screen is one of the biggest drains on battery life, this is useful to ensure that you don’t needlessly waste battery life when you’re not using your laptop.
In fact, when the battery percentage is displayed in the Windows 10 taskbar, it can easily be seen that it is constantly low when the screen is at maximum brightness or use.
However, if that’s not your main concern, and keeping the screen on is more important, our guide below will show you how to change a couple of settings so the screen stays on longer. Even indefinitely, when you haven’t used it for a while.
Choose when to turn off the screen in Control Panel
One of the options you have to stop the screen from turning off in Windows 10 versions is to go to the options found in the control panel. Perform the following procedure that we leave you below.
- You must select Control Panel to start it.
- Now you are going to select the System and Security option.
- Click Change when the computer goes to sleep in Power Options.
- Click the down arrow and select the time from the list.
- Click Save Changes for the settings to take effect.
How to change display power settings in Windows 10
Before going through the process, please note that if you select the “Never” option for the settings below, your screen will stay on even if you haven’t touched it in a while.
There are separate settings for when the computer is connected to power or using the battery, so you can configure those situations separately and make the screen not turn off in Windows 10.
- You must select the Start option located at the bottom left of the screen.
- Select the Settings icon in the lower left corner of the Start menu.
- Now select System from the menu.
- Click the Power On & Off tab on the left side of the menu.
- Click the dropdown menus under Display to choose the period of inactivity after which you want Windows 10 to turn off the display. The Never option is at the bottom of the list.
If you use your computer in a dark environment, some of the Windows 10 menus may be a bit too bright.
Find out more about dark mode in Windows 10 and see if it’s something you think will improve your computing experience.
Using Windows 10 settings to keep the screen on
To open screen saver settings, type “Change screen saver” in the Cortana search box on the Windows 10 taskbar.
Select Change Screen Saver to open the window shown below. From here you can change all the screen saver settings.
Select the Screen Saver dropdown menu and click (None) from there. Click Apply and OK to apply the settings. This disables the screen saver.
However, there are other things that can also disable the screen. To set them, click Change power settings.
Then select Choose when the screen should turn off to open the options below. Now select Never from all the dropdown menus and click Save Changes.
If by chance you have any other problem with Windows 10, I recommend you go through our website to investigate and solve those annoying problems or errors that you may have.