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

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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 gave this a shot, did not work.

i change the sleep setting to never, then change the turn display off to a couple minutes. still stops all downloads when screen turns off. i went back into to power settings and after changing the "sleep" setting and the " turn screen off" timer i noticed that it acts as the same setting... change screen off timer to 5 min, it changes the put computer to sleep timer to 5 min also

Hi,

Sleep uses very little power, your PC starts up faster and you're instantly back to where you were before. Downloading a file requires use of RAM, the hard drive, a network connection. However as a work around you may disable the sleep mode or adjust the sleep mode time when downloading the files.

To change sleep settings refer to the article.

Shut down, sleep or hibernate

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/how-shut-down-turn-off-pc

Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with updated status of the issue to assist you further.

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.

I have the same problem. It just frustrated me no end. I want to listen to streaming music in a browser over lte while in the park. I get the station up and running and then   SLEEP!! No matter what setting I choose the damn thing sleeps. As stated by others the only option is to keep everything on, including the nice power hungry screen. In fact even just turning down the brightness leaves you in a hole, as then you cant find the controls to interact with the gui again. 

Not a very well thought out scheme it seems. Either that or bad interface, points of confusion and function duplication in control panel versus tablet computer settings. Hmmmm very frustrating over all.