How to prevent Screen Display from turning off in Windows 11/10

Your computer’s display will turn off automatically when the system goes into the idle state to save some of your precious battery life and power. But if you are not a fan of that feature, check this post to prevent Screen Display from turning off in Windows 11/10.

Prevent Windows screen display from turning off

To keep your screen from turning off on a Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, you may use  one of these options:

1. Through Settings app
2. By using Command Prompt
3. Through the Control Panel

Let’s see all these methods in detail:

1] Through the Settings app

If you want to prevent the screen display from turning off, you need to perform some changes in the Settings app:

1. Open the Windows Settings using Win+I keyboard shortcut and then head to the System > Power & sleep.
2. Move to the right pane and locate the Screen section. Then click on the drop-down menu and set “On battery power, turn off after” as Never.
3. Similarly, click on the drop-down menu and set “When plugged in, turn off after” as Never.
4. After following the above steps, your computer screen display will not turn off automatically.

Tip: ScreenOff lets you turn off Windows laptop screen with a click.

2] By using Command Prompt

You can also keep your screen from turning off by running a simple command in Command Prompt. To do so, open the Run dialog box using the Win+R keyboard shortcut.

In the text field, type Ctrl+Shift+Enter keys to open Command Prompt with admin privileges. Click on the Yes button if UAC popup on your computer screen.

In the Command Prompt window, type the following command:

powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 0

Press the Enter key to set the timeout setting to never

Furthermore, you can also set your screen timeout settings to never when your PC is running on battery. To do this, type the following command and hit enter to run it:

powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-dc 0

After running the above commands, it will set your screen timeout setting to never turn off.

Read: Windows computer goes to Sleep too early.

3] Through the Control Panel

The next option is the control panel using which you can prevent your Windows 11/10 screen display from turning off. So let’s see how to do this:

Open the Control Panel.

Go to the upper right corner of the screen and make sure the View by option is set to Category.

Now go to Hardware and Sound > Power Options.

From the left pane, click the link named Choose when to turn off the display.

In the Edit Plan Settings window, set the “Turn off the display” option to Never using the drop-down menu for both On battery and Plugged in.

Here please note that the “On Battery” option is only available for the laptop computer.

We hope you find the post useful.

Related: Computer Screen won’t turn off after the specified time.

How do I stop my display from turning off Windows 11?

To stop your display from turning off on a Windows 11 computer, you need to configure the Power & battery settings. You can also use Command Prompt or Control Panel to do the same.

Also Read: Prevent users from shutting down or restarting Windows computer.

How do I stop my Screen from going black Windows 11?

Your screen goes black when your computer goes into an idle state. So, if you want to configure your computer such that it never goes into the idle state, our best bet is to change the On battery power, turn off after to Never.

Also Read: Windows PC turns off randomly.