Have you ever been in the situation where you're preparing for a big
presentation, you have everything set up and then your machine goes
asleep and you have to re log in.
I'll do not fair because there's some amazing tools on windows that
enables you to keep your screen awake and your computer on no matter what.
So tonight.
Hi everyone.
I'm James Monson Magno, and I present a lot.
I gotta be honest with you often when I'm doing presentations, I have my
laptop or my desktop sort of set up and it's over in a corner and I'm
talking to people and sure enough, it goes to sleep all the time.
If you're in a corporate environment, you might also have different
it requirements that override your power and sleep settings on
your laptop or desktop machine.
And it's quite annoying when you're preparing for a presentation or you're
just doing work or step away for a second and everything locks up and it
turns off now it also is a bummer too.
If your machine goes to sleep and powers down, Because you might be
uploading or processing big files.
So there's a few ways in windows that can easily optimize this process for
going to sleep and keeping the screen on.
So I want to go ahead and show you my tips and tricks, so let's check it out.
So the first thing is inside of windows, you're probably familiar
with this power and stuff.
Mode here.
It's actually right under home power and sleep.
And there are a few different options on here when your machine's plugged in.
How long do you want to wait before it goes and turns off the screen.
There's also when your machine is plugged in, how often do you
want your machine to go to sleep?
So the actual turning off of the hard drive and everything, and
kind of going into that slow, slow.
Sleep mode.
Now, if you're on a laptop, you're going to see additional settings when you're
on a battery and you may want to actually adjust that cause you want, you know,
your machine not to, to sleep there.
Now over here, there are additional power settings.
If I bring that up, we'll see that there's things.
I just high-performance balance mode.
If you go to change plans.
You'll see that those are the same options there, but there's advanced
power settings, which I can bring over and we can see that you can
really optimize all sorts of things inside of here if you really want to.
Um, but really at the end of the day, you want your machine to always stay
on or not go to sleep all the time.
Now, one thing that I've noticed is sometimes I'm doing code demos and
I want my machine to stay right.
So, what I do is I go into PowerPoint and I create a blank PowerPoint
presentation, and all you need to do is present it and you're done.
That's all you need to do is just go in and present it
on whatever monitor you are.
So they all presented on you.
My primary monitor.
It's white.
It's done.
That's it.
As long as you're presenting that PowerPoint deck, it won't go to sleep.
That is like pro tip number one, if you're setting up and you're got a
presentation going on, you've got some code samples going on, just
open a PowerPoint and say present.
When you get up to present your code demo, hit escape, and you're out.
It's just that easy to be honest with you.
It's quite cool.
If you're on multiple desktops.
Slop, slap that on one of the desktops and you're good to go,
but I am a huge fan of power toys.
I did a whole video on power toys over here, which is a application you can
install completely for free, and it has all sorts of great options like fancy
zones that help you manage your layouts.
There's a color picker that's built in imagery, sizer, and there's
a new option called oh, awake.
This.
Favorite features that is built right in to power toys.
Now, when you enable awake, what will happen here is power toys will override
all of the machines, settings and take full control of your machine.
The first thing that we'll see here is if you want to keep your screen on
that is for all intents and purposes.
Do you want to keep the screen on or off?
Right?
Not actually turn your go into sleep mode or not, but let's go ahead and
just override an always keep the screen.
Now here, you can go into different modes such as off, which just
basically adheres to the power plan.
You can keep awake indefinitely, or if you want to, you can say, you know what,
let's go ahead for the next two hours.
Keep my machine.
Better yet.
If we go down in the bottom right over here, we'll see that there's this
little awake thing you can manage all of your modes and your screen settings.
All from this little coffee cup for power toys awake, you can even exit it complete.
You can of course, open up power toys, just like I showed here, go back into
awaken, override them as well, but it's just honestly that simple to
say, Hey, always keep my screen on.
Never go to sleep and always keep my computer on and don't turn down
anything for just a few hours.
That's one of the nicest things that power toys has to offer
when it comes to screaming.
All right.
There's my tips and tricks.
It's not that long of a video, but I found power toys and I simply love it.
If you have tips and tricks on keeping your windows or your Mac or Linux
machine turned on, and that screen on when you're getting ready to do that big
presentation or code demo, let me know in the comments, what applications or
how you're solving it on your machine.
I'd love to learn more.
I'm a huge fan of power toys and all the things that has
packed in I'm real excited.
Added this feature, so don't need yet another separate application
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