Sometimes it’s helpful to be able to keep your workstation awake without requiring installation of anything or even admin access.

Here’s a snippet you can run in a non-admin PowerShell window to keep your workstation awake. Change the value for AddMinutes() to make it run for a shorter or longer length of time.

$limit = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(180); $wsh = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell; while ((Get-Date) -le $limit) {write-host “End time is $limit”; write-host “Time now is “ (Get-Date); $wsh.SendKeys(‘+{F15}’); Start-Sleep -seconds 360};