Can Windows 11 sleep?

Matthew Wai · Mar 1, 2022

On a Chinese forum, someone wrote that Windows 11 could not sleep. It could only hibernate. Is it true?

hsehestedt · Mar 1, 2022

Not true. Windows 11 supports sleep.

Fabler2 · Mar 1, 2022

I think this may be something to do to modern standby on newer models? None of my laptops (Win 11) support this and they all sleep. I also have hibernate disabled.

jvickers · Mar 1, 2022

(modern standby)

I use hibernate when I go to bed at night. My system boots back on quickly enough for my liking.

Matthew Wai · Mar 1, 2022

Fabler2 said:
I also have hibernate disabled.

hsehestedt said:
Not true. Windows 11 supports sleep.

Will your PCs go to sleep when you run the following command?

C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

Fabler2 · Mar 1, 2022

Matthew Wai said:
Will your PCs go to sleep when you run the following command?

C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

Yes. Usual sleep as closing lid.

K7MEM · Mar 1, 2022

I move around a lot, so my laptop is configured to hibernate when I close the lid. When I open the lid and press the start button, everything I was working on comes right back up, in less than 30 seconds. That's quick enough for me. The only time I actually reboot is after an update.

jbcarreon123 · Mar 1, 2022

Sleep works on my Windows 11 incompatible/unsupported machine.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/yall-aint-gonna-believe-this.3964/post-76622

Note that my PC does not have Modern Standby.

ShamrockRig · Mar 1, 2022

jvickers said:
(modern standby)

I use hibernate when I go to bed at night. My system boots back on quickly enough for my liking.

Whats the boot back on time roughly? You dont gotta go test it btw was just curious, I've never been one to use sleep or hibernate, Mostly due to me being at the pc most of the time if im home. It takes maybe 30 seconds from stone cold off to my desktop. How much time would sleep/hibernate save me?

Bree · Mar 1, 2022

Matthew Wai said:
someone wrote that Windows 11 could not sleep. It could only hibernate. Is it true?

The word 'Sleep' is often used carelessly to refer to either conventional sleep (S3 sleep state) or Modern Standby (S0 Sleep state).

Windows 11 supports both types of sleep. I have Windows 11 running on two supported laptops, one with Modern Standby, the other without - both sleep when I close the lid.

The traditional S3 Sleep requires a compatible display driver that supports sleep. Without a suitable drive then Windows cannot sleep, not in Win10 or Win11.

I like all my laptops to sleep when I close the lid so that they wake up quickly when I return. But to prevent that draining the battery if I don't use them for a day or so I also set them up to hibernate after 20 minutes of sleep.

K7MEM · Mar 1, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
How much time would sleep/hibernate save me?

I guess it's all about what you do on your computer. For me, I use hibernate, but it's really not about the time. When I close the lid on my laptop, I want all of my windows and settings to be remembered. Generally, I have things like Excel, a HTML editor, multiple PDF documents, Cygwin, two browser windows, and four email drops to monitor. When I open it back up, and hit the start button, I want everything to be brought back up, so I can get back to work.

ShamrockRig · Mar 1, 2022

K7MEM said:
I guess it's all about what you do on your computer. For me, I use hibernate, but it's really not about the time. When I close the lid on my laptop, I want all of my windows and settings to be remembered. Generally, I have things like Excel, a HTML editor, multiple PDF documents, Cygwin, two browser windows, and four email drops to monitor. When I open it back up, and hit the start button, I want everything to be brought back up, so I can get back to work.

Sweet, That makes sense for sure, I've just always wondered why sleep/hibernate has always had a decently sized user base but since it isn't a time thing(Im sure slower pc's etc vary ofc) that clears that up! Always wondered why people wanted to save 6 seconds but that covers it!

Winuser · Mar 1, 2022

Matthew Wai said:
On a Chinese forum, someone wrote that Windows 11 could not sleep. It could only hibernate. Is it true?

If the computer has Modern Standby, then instead of Sleep it goes into a low power mode. Modern Standby

Winuser · Mar 1, 2022

hsehestedt said:
Not true. Windows 11 supports sleep.

It's half true. It's not Windows 11. It depends on the motherboard.

jvickers · Mar 1, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
Whats the boot back on time roughly? You dont gotta go test it btw was just curious, I've never been one to use sleep or hibernate, Mostly due to me being at the pc most of the time if im home. It takes maybe 30 seconds from stone cold off to my desktop. How much time would sleep/hibernate save me?

I just tested it. It was about 15 seconds to get everything loaded back, including my Corsair keyboard custom colors, which usually takes the longest.

Winuser · Mar 1, 2022

Bree said:
The word 'Sleep' is often used carelessly to refer to either conventional sleep (S3 sleep state) or Modern Standby (S0 Sleep state).

Windows 11 supports both types of sleep. I have Windows 11 running on two supported laptops, one with Modern Standby, the other without - both sleep when I close the lid.

The traditional S3 Sleep requires a compatible display driver that supports sleep. Without a suitable drive then Windows cannot sleep, not in Win10 or Win11.

I like all my laptops to sleep when I close the lid so that they wake up quickly when I return. But to prevent that draining the battery if I don't use them for a day or so I also set them up to hibernate after 20 minutes of sleep.

S0 is a low power state. For example, MS can update a computer while in a S0 sleep mode.

ShamrockRig · Mar 1, 2022

jvickers said:
I just tested it. It was about 15 seconds to get everything loaded back, including my Corsair keyboard custom colors, which usually takes the longest.

Thats pretty nifty to be fair! If I had a lot of things to open for work or something everyday I'd probably use it. Since my pc is solely for personal/enjoyment purposes and I don't do any work on it at all, I guess that's why I aint ever used it! 15 seconds alone isn't a reason to make me use it though

jvickers · Mar 1, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
Thats pretty nifty to be fair! If I had a lot of things to open for work or something everyday I'd probably use it. Since my pc is solely for personal/enjoyment purposes and I don't do any work on it at all, I guess that's why I aint ever used it! 15 seconds alone isn't a reason to make me use it though

Yeah, I can see your point. I use hibernate because I leave so many work applications open. Sleep has some strange effect on my Corsair keyboard that no one can seem to figure out, Corsair included. It doesn't happen with hibernate.

hsehestedt · Mar 1, 2022

If your system supports it, you might also consider taking a look at hybrid sleep. This is intended mainly for desktops. It puts the computer in a sleep state, but also creates a hibernation file. The idea is that you are in sleep mode and can wake back up rapidly, but if power is lost for any reason, then the system simply resumes from the hibernation file. Since a laptop has a built-in battery this really doesn't apply so much there.

On my system I can resume from sleep in about 3 seconds. Hibernation takes longer but it's still a good bit faster than a complete cold boot. Another odd thing about my system is that Wake on LAN only works when I'm in hibernation or sleep, and wake timers only work from these modes as well. For example, when Macrium Reflect is set to perform a backup, my system will automatically wake so that it can carry out the backup.

glasskuter · Mar 1, 2022

This confusion has been brought about from people who have bought new laptops who have motherboards that only support modern sleep.As a result, these laptops do not 'behave' as they are accustomed to. Modern standby has serious issues which include overheating, battery drain, and loss of certain functionality when the laptop enters S0 sleep. It's not an OS issue, but the lack of S3 support in the hardware (bios). People buy these laptops unknowingly of what they are getting and what problems they will have to deal with. Modern Standby was originally Microsoft's idea, but OEMs and mobo makers have made it so that the user doesn't have an option of using any other sleep state, which, depending on how one uses their laptop can cause havoc on the batteries and constant overheating of their hardware if the laptop is carried in a case. From a consumer standpoint, IMO it's a nightmare. I don't expect anything to be done about it, though.

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