Laptop won't stay awake when sharing video

therat

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I have an Alienware M18xR2 with Windows 8. Power Profile is set to Balanced. I've changed the "Multimedia -> when sharing video" settings to "Prevent idling to sleep" but it doesn't work. After 30 minutes my laptop goes to sleep and the other users of my LAN get disconnected.

I want my laptop to sleep if it isn't being used but not when someone is watching video files of TV I've recorded.

Is there any way I can make my laptop stay awake while other users are watching video files I am sharing?

cheers
 
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