Keeping my pc on for downloads

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Tags 2. Tags: Archived. How do I stop my computer from going into standby while downloading something from the internet? I'm using Firefox on Windows 7. Signed, Zorro Dear Zorro99 ,. You're in luck. While it's a much trickier request to want Windows to hibernate based on network activity from any application, it's a snap to tweak Firefox to help with the process. We shared an extension called Auto Shutdown with you last year. You can download the extension here.

Go into the Options menu for Auto Shutdown and then to Customize. You'll find commands for every version of Windows for a variety of tasks. Auto Shutdown is a great solution for hibernating or shutting down a computer after a download but unfortunately it doesn't override the settings in Windows. If you set your computer to sleep after 30 minutes, then sleep it will.

It's an imperfect workaround, but you can disable automatic sleep and put your computer to sleep manually the days that you're not planning on doing any marathon after hours downloading.