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Put computer to sleep without having sleep option in menu.
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Put computer to sleep without having the option

Some work PC's and laptops with an office wide group policy have sleep disabled. This worked for me to sleep my laptop everyday.

Download PSTools

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pstools

Add the folder to the PATH in Windows 10

Run this command in cmd.exe or create a .BAT file for easy access.

psshutdown -d -t 0

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