Coffee Time

Based on the popular tool for Macintosh, Caffeine, Cafe Time is a lightweight piece of software that prevents the computer from entering sleep mode for a given period of time. Consequentially, you can avert irritating situations such as getting a black screen when you are watching a movie or a playlist with a full TV series, for instance.

The utility is as discreet as possible and does not have an interface per se, but rather you can access it from the System Tray. From here, you can set the tool to permanently prevent the computer from sleep or perhaps for a few minutes or hours. The program does not come with a Settings or Options menu, but you can choose from several intervals from preventing sleep, namely Never Sleep, 30 minutes, 3 hours or 1 minute, just to name a few.

In the eventuality that you would like to make sure that the computer enters sleep mode after all, then all you need to do is mark the Allow sleep option from the same location. It can come in handy for the times when you need to perform a backup or uploading the documents after finishing your work, for example.