Now, not all of this was on Microsoft. It took some effort by the hardware manufactures to ensure their drivers and subsystems supported the implementation fully and correctly. Today, for the most part, all these problems are behind us. Windows will freely and automatically standby or hibernate your PC based on the parameters you’ve defined in the Power Profile under Control Panel. It’s just another thing you shouldn’t and don’t have to worry about, thankfully.
With all that being said, there are certainly times you wish your PC to not goto sleep automatically. The obvious solution is to temporarily change the Power Profile applied to keep the juice flowing. Then re-enable the power management when the moment has passed. The pitfall here is obvious, isn’t it?
Don’t Sleep is a free application in a tiny package – just 35KB – that can suspend the power management features of Windows on a temporary basis. Scheduling can be set by date and time all while returning to normal after expiration. Thus, ensuring that your computer remains online while a lengthy download completes or accessible remotely for a couple of hours throughout the day tomorrow.
As a portable application, Don’t Sleep requires no installation and is a perfect utility to keep tucked away on any system.
