Turn on the ability for applications to prevent sleep transitions (plugged in)

This policy setting allows you to turn on the ability for applications and services to prevent the system from sleeping.If you enable this policy setting an application or service may prevent the system from sleeping (Hybrid Sleep Stand By or Hibernate).If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users control this setting.

Policy path: 

System\Power Management\Sleep Settings

Scope: 

Machine

Supported on: 

At least Windows Vista

Registry settings: 

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\B7A27025-E569-46c2-A504-2B96CAD225A1!ACSettingIndex

Filename: 

Power.admx

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