Windows 8.1 tablet, turn off screen while keeping tablet on?

Same problem with my Windows 8.1 Thinkpad 10. "Sleep" and "Turn off display" are both the same thing! It's frustrating if you want to listen music.

Microsoft want to compete with Android? - Keep dreaming... They can't even fixed this very basic problem. Should have an update in the next business day!

Anyway, as temporary fixed, I set the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CSEnabled to 0. This will disable the sleep function and turn-off the display instead. The disadvantage is I need to shutdown my computer if I want to turn it off.

I just paid a BIG chunk of money for a Surface Pro 3 and can't even listen to music with no screen light in the room.  What is the point of having separate settings for sleep and display if they are tied together?  I don't think the majority of users want there screen on when they are:

• Listening to stored music
• Streaming radio
• Downloading large files in off hours that are not metered
• Doing backups
• Many other tasks within applications

But we should have the option and Microsoft needs to stop making these decisions for users.

Is the on the list to fix?  Just a yes/no and I'll make my decisions based on that.

Hi,

Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community Forums.

Follow these steps and check the status.

-          Access “Control Panel” and click on “Power Options”.

-          Click on “change plan settings”.

Set “never” for “put the computer to sleep”. This will ensure that the computer does not go to sleep mode.

Select couple of minutes for this option “turn off the display”. When you select 1 or 2 minutes for the turn off display, the battery power consumption is also reduced.

Once this is done save the settings and check if this helps.

Power plans: frequently asked questions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/power-plans-faq#1TC=windows-8

Reply with the status of the issue and we will be glad to offer our assistance.

just got a new windows 8.1 tablet ( omni 10 if you need to know for some reason ) and i keep finding myself wanting to turn off my screen while keeping the tablet from turning off or sleeping. i usually us my tablet to download OS updates for my android phone, or other large files, but whenever i push the power button the tablet goes into "sleep" mode and stops downloading everything. the only solution i can find is to keep the screen on, but id rather not do that to keep it from killing the battery faster that it needs to. also cant find anything in the power options about screen power off timer... only sleep timer :/ 

I apologize that I haven't seen this thread, earlier!!  Very early in the Windows 8/8.1 game and after I bought my first Dell Venue, I discovered an app called TouchMe Gesture Studio.  I have used it, extensively, for some time, now, and love it.

The other app mentioned throws up a black screen and this may be a solution for some, but I wanted to power down, completely, so this is better for me.  Reduces battery usage.  A black screen actually uses more battery than any other screen scenario.

Also fyi, Windows 10, which I am running quite successfully on a Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 with a core i5 processor, has "power Off Display" as a power button option. Screenshot attached.

I have the same issue as MagicJello. I did just get my Asus Transformer T100 with windows 8.1 and just discovered this problem. It is most obvious when listening to music for example by using Spotify. When doing so I do not want it to go to sleep mode but of course it is ok for the screen to be turned off to save battery. 

So I set that the computer should never go to sleep. I can then go to advanced settings and change after how long I want the display to be turned off. But when I do so, and close the power settings window, and then open the settings again I can see that the option to never go to sleep mode has been changed to the same value as I set the time for the display to be turned off. 

There seem to be some sort of bug. Can it be fixed?

In windows 7 there were under power options different options for when the display should be dimmed, when it should be turned off and when the computer should go to sleep mode. I can not understand why these options have been reduced to only the option to go to sleep mode.