Utilities
Stay Awake
Three strategies, and the choice matters: only the last two synthesize real input. Pick one under Strategy and the panel shows only the controls that strategy needs.
System power blocker (recommended)
Blocks sleep and the screensaver at the OS level. Sends no synthetic input at all — your cursor never moves. This is the default and it is the right answer for sleep and the screensaver. If that is your problem, stop here. While it runs, the status reads Running — sleep and screensaver blocked.
It needs no interval, so no schedule controls appear. The other two strategies carry a Moves your input badge.
Micro-move
Really nudges the cursor one pixel and back on an interval, for idle detectors that watch input rather than power state.
Keep-alive keystroke
Really taps a harmless key on an interval, for session timeouts that only reset on real input. Use F15, the default: it exists in the keyboard standard but essentially nothing binds it. The picker also lists Scroll Lock, but in this version it does not work — the panel shows an error on every pulse — so stay on F15.
Interval and jitter
Interval (minutes), from 1 minute to 60 in half-minute steps; it starts at 1. Timing jitter (ms) varies the moment the pulse lands — 0 by default, up to 5,000. Neither applies to the power strategy.
The Roblox Anti-Disconnect preset button appears once Micro-move or Keep-alive keystroke is selected. It sets keep-alive, F15, and a 15-minute interval — comfortably under the documented 20-minute idle kick, so the pulse never races the timeout.
What usually goes wrong
My laptop still sleeps when I shut the lid. Lid-close behaviour is a Windows power setting, not an idle timeout, and nothing here overrides it.
IT policy still locks the screen. None of the three can override a policy your administrator has set.
Stay Awake — the tool this page is about
Three strategies, and you pick which one. A system power-state block is the default and sends no synthetic input at all. A one-pixel cursor nudge covers idle detectors that watch the mouse rather than the power state. A harmless F15 keystroke covers session timeouts that only reset on a real key event — the twenty-minute game disconnect and the status light that goes amber while you are reading. Learn more about the Stay Awake.
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