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

hello !

      I cant find any solution to make the screen off while downloading like the android having many no of apps... Does the Microsoft people are looking these problems ???/

On behalf of the folks in this thread, I formally would request an enhancement be submitted to the power management functionality of Windows to allow "Turn off the display" to be added as an option under "Choose what the power buttons do".  This would rectify the issue for devices where the physical hardware does not provide this capability.

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.

Beautiful! This worked for me. Thank you!

But Microsoft needs to get busy on a fix for this problem. I didn't have it until I installed December's updates from Windows Update today. Now I had this issue. Spent the better part of the day trying to figure out how to fix this.

Hi Steve,

You can disable or turn off the display from the settings in the Power option. In the “change plan settings”, you need to ensure that the time is minimal for the “display to turn off”. For example if you have chosen two minutes for the display to turn off then after two minutes the display will be off and you can continue to listen to the music. Once this is done, save the settings.

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The Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11 does not support add-ons. To take advantage of the additional functionality of add-ons, use the Desktop version of Internet Explorer 11.

The Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11 runs with Enhanced Protected Mode enabled by default because plug-ins don’t run in the Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11, hence compatibility is generally not an issue. Enhanced Protected Mode is disabled by default in the Desktop version of Internet Explorer 11.

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Yikes, they had all already stated that the options in Windows are not allowing separate setting of screen off and sleep. I had just run into this problem on my Asus laptop. It had been working fine. It runs 24/7 with the screen off time set at 3 minutes. I have security camera software running so it can not go into sleep. Just today I installed a couple updates through windows update and now the computer goes into Connected Standby. It never did this before. Now all of a sudden it does and I have no option to set the screen off time. Only Sleep. How in the world did this change. It was working then just wasn't. So frustrating to not have the option separate on low power tablets and notebooks like there is on desktops and laptops.

I did that registry tweak and it has solved my problem. I now have screen off option rather than sleep. Back to working like it used to thankfully. But really Microsoft, please fix this problem!!

Hi Steve,

You can disable or turn off the display from the settings in the Power option. In the “change plan settings”, you need to ensure that the time is minimal for the “display to turn off”. For example if you have chosen two minutes for the display to turn off then after two minutes the display will be off and you can continue to listen to the music. Once this is done, save the settings.

I would like to let you know that the Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11 is a bare bones version, optimized for faster browsing and touch devices, but works well with a keyboard and mouse, as well.

The Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11 does not support add-ons. To take advantage of the additional functionality of add-ons, use the Desktop version of Internet Explorer 11.

The Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11 runs with Enhanced Protected Mode enabled by default because plug-ins don’t run in the Modern UI version of Internet Explorer 11, hence compatibility is generally not an issue. Enhanced Protected Mode is disabled by default in the Desktop version of Internet Explorer 11.

 Keep us informed to help you further.