Wynona,
[I type slowly. I only saw Rick's reply to you after completing this post.]
So your computer does have S3 Sleep, which is what people generally mean when they refer to sleep. I'm pleased for you.
S3 Sleep is, in MS's opinion, the old standard that MS thinks "users" regard as not good enough because "users" want "instant-on" like we have on our phones. It's a bogus claim.
- A computer resuming from S3 Sleep does so in little more than the blink of an eye.
- A computer in S3 Sleep can last for a day or more before its battery gives out.
I have an S0 Modern standby computer [actually a tablet but with its own integrated keyboard so it looks like a small laptop].
I disabled S0 but, unlike the experiences of any others who have done so, my S3 Sleep remained disabled.
So I have the choices of being fully on, being in hibernation or being off. This is still better than having S0 messing things up.
Disable Modern Standby in Windows 10 and Windows 11 - ElevenForumTutorials
I also tried a halfway stage that stopped S0 starting: Power options set to keep the monitor on always plus a blank screensaver that started after a minute or so. The 'on' monitor was therefore not staring at me the whole day. I wasn't a bad compromise.
There are many forum discussions about the curse of S0 Modern standby.
There are, in effect, four Power/Computer states for an S0 Modern standby [aka S0 Low power idle] computer
- Computer on, Monitor on {Work can be done on the computer}
- Computer on, Monitor off = S0 {The monitor turning off initiates S0 Modern standby i.e. idle}. No user-desired activities take place, only MS-desired ones such as WU & their built-in email app.
- Hibernate
- Off
S0, the progressively severe idle condition, is not so energy-efficient that you can leave your computer sitting there in the corner on battery power until next Tuesday [unlike your phone]. It won't even sit there until tonight then still have enough power left to allow you to use it for a few hours. I think S0 is a decade too early; when computer hardware can idle on as little power as a phone's hardware then S0 will have a point.
I do hope you are impressed by the fact that I have referred to S0 several times in this post without adding appropriate adjectives to it. It has taken a lot of self-discipline to achieve this. S0 is a curse.
Like Rick, I am determined to avoid buying another S0 computer.
Yours,
Another S0 victim,
Denis
