StayGreen includes the guardrails a laptop deserves: the machine can stay in the work state you need when plugged in, but it should back off on battery, when Battery Saver is on, or when the lid closes with no display attached.
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If this sounds like your week
Which means every “keep it awake” tool has a responsibility when the power brick is not there.
Where tooling usually breaks
Which is why anything that hammers fake input 24/7 is a long-term non-starter, even if it is funny on TikTok once.
Where StayGreen lands
For “battery safe keep awake when unplugged,” you want a tool that can stay in the work state you need, but not pretend physics does not exist. That is the StayGreen shape: a Store purchase you can explain to anyone who asks, with behavior that is explainable, too.
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What you get
Holds a documented Windows power request and reacts to system events, instead of a polling loop or simulated mouse movement.
Auto-pauses on battery, when Battery Saver is on, or when the lid closes with no external display attached — and resumes on its own.
Keep awake only when specific apps like `ms-teams.exe` are active.
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Engineering Proof
StayGreen holds a Windows power request — created with
PowerCreateRequest and set with
PowerSetRequest — to ask Windows
directly for the awake state. No fake mouse movement, no periodic wake pings, and no loop burning cycles to
pretend the user is active.
It deliberately does not use the older
SetThreadExecutionState flag,
which is thread-affine: the flag belongs to the thread that set it. StayGreen changes its awake state from
several threads — the command handler, the timed-session task, and the Win32 event worker — and a thread-affine
flag produced inconsistent releases. The request API does not have that problem.
A single capture on one PC rather than a benchmark — we publish no averaged CPU or memory figure, because the app ships no measurement harness to produce one.
Product Interface
The StayGreen interface keeps the important decisions obvious: when to override sleep, how long to hold the state, and which app should trigger it. No command-line dance. No clutter disguised as enterprise UX.
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Our Core Moat
Compiled Rust core wrapped inside an optimized Tauri shell. No heavy background node loops or duplicate Chromium engines cooking your memory footprint (<25MB idle RAM).
Executes entirely on-device with full offline isolation. Absolute zero background telemetry policies, no metrics aggregation, and zero mandatory cloud-sync accounts.
Pay a single, clear one-time purchase price. Own your specific native software utility execution tier permanently without artificial subscription paywalls or ongoing usage tax.
FAQ
StayGreen is a Windows keep-awake utility from Automata Labs. It holds a documented Windows power request rather than running a polling loop, with battery, Battery Saver, and lid interlocks and per-app rules that follow the foreground window, so you are not faking input just to look “active.” It is a one-time Microsoft Store purchase, local-first, with no telemetry. If the goal is a machine that does not go idle when the work is not done yet—calls, long jobs, or strict IT policies that punish sleep—this is the product category, not a browser extension.
No. Simulated input can violate policy, trigger security tooling, and still fail when the system wants to save power. A proper utility asks the OS to stay in the right state without wiggling hardware you do not need to wiggle.
StayGreen is built with interlocks: things like auto-pausing on battery or when the lid is closed are part of the design so “stay present” is not a synonym for “ignore power reality.”
Yes, in the sense that it targets the same outcome—staying out of deep sleep in legitimate workflows—without the mouse-jig aesthetic. The difference is what it does on the way there: it is designed for compliance-minded environments, not a script that wiggles pixels.
StayGreen holds a documented Windows power request — no fake input, no polling loop — with interlocks that pause on battery, on Battery Saver, and when the lid closes with no display attached, plus per-app rules that follow the foreground window.
One-time purchase on the Microsoft Store · No subscription · Instant install
Buy through the Microsoft Store—instant install, automatic updates, and a Microsoft receipt for easy expensing. No account needed on our site, and no subscription on Store purchases.
Technical specifications
| Spec | Implementation |
|---|---|
| Data Sovereignty | Sleep-prevention state is local; no remote presence or activity reporting |
| Telemetry Status | None |
| Core Runtime | Native Windows binary using SetThreadExecutionState / execution-state APIs |
| Network Requirements | Fully functional offline |
| Deployment Compatibility | Windows 10 and 11 (x64); direct purchase and Microsoft Store |
| System footprint | Near-zero idle CPU; no polling loops or fake input injection |
| Hardware guardrails | Auto-pause on battery unplug or lid close |