Sleep modes? Something more traditional?

Levitate11 · Friday at 9:39 PM

I'm wondering if there's a Sleep Mode variation I've missed. Or perhaps a way to tweak "Modern Sleep" to act like the more traditional modes. Maybe even just a guide to what hardware & software to tweak to get back there.

When I first got Win 11, I noticed that my machine was waking up in the night and checking for updates, etc. So I moved it to Hibernate. That seemed to resolve the off hours updating features that annoyed my OCD. ("You're supposed to be sleeping... so sleep!). But, Hibernate is slow to restart.

So recently I swapped back to "Sleep" instead of Hibernate. However, I can see that it's not really sleeping at all. If I turn on a Bluetooth device that has been hooked up to the Win 11 machine previously (headphones, ear buds, etc), it immediately hooks up... even though that same device could alternatively hook up to my Iphone as it's been connected there too and the iphone is active and physically n my hand. Visualize headphones that I'd like to hook up to the device of my choice (and one that's not sleeping, duh). I have to turn on the laptop, manually disconnect the Bluetooth device, then reconnect to the Iphone. Beyond annoying late at night when the laptop is in the office and I'm trying to hook up headphones in the bedroom.

The fact that the PC is supposedly "asleep" is a fallacy - it's ready and waiting to grab a Bluetooth connection that I'd rather have connect elsewhere.

I resolved the specific Bluetooth issue by shutting off Bluetooth on the Laptop. Perhaps I could stop Bluetooth from waking in sleep? But I'd prefer to address the problem rather than the symptom. Is there a way to get a sleep configuration that's more traditional i.e go to sleep with only memory active... waiting for me to open the machine and wake it up with the mouse or keyboard?

glasskuter · Friday at 9:55 PM

Levitate11 said:
Is there a way to get a sleep configuration that's more traditional i.e go to sleep with only memory active... waiting for me to open the machine and wake it up with the mouse or keyboard?

A very few modern standby devices bios allow for s3 sleep to be enabled but they are few and far between. The ones I've seen were all Dells and they were early on in the "modern standby" transition days.
It is up to the manufacturer to issue bios that allows s3 sleep to be enabled and most do not, so I would say no to your question.

Here's the tutorial Brink wrote in 2022 and updated in 2026 on how to do it. READ the cautions CAREFULLY. Use at your own risk.
Disable Modern Standby in Windows 10 and Windows 11

HeavyHemi · Friday at 9:55 PM

Levitate11 said:
I'm wondering if there's a Sleep Mode variation I've missed. Or perhaps a way to tweak "Modern Sleep" to act like the more traditional modes. Maybe even just a guide to what hardware & software to tweak to get back there.

When I first got Win 11, I noticed that my machine was waking up in the night and checking for updates, etc. So I moved it to Hibernate. That seemed to resolve the off hours updating features that annoyed my OCD. ("You're supposed to be sleeping... so sleep!). But, Hibernate is slow to restart.

So recently I swapped back to "Sleep" instead of Hibernate. However, I can see that it's not really sleeping at all. If I turn on a Bluetooth device that has been hooked up to the Win 11 machine previously (headphones, ear buds, etc), it immediately hooks up... even though that same device could alternatively hook up to my Iphone as it's been connected there too and the iphone is active and physically n my hand. Visualize headphones that I'd like to hook up to the device of my choice (and one that's not sleeping, duh). I have to turn on the laptop, manually disconnect the Bluetooth device, then reconnect to the Iphone. Beyond annoying late at night when the laptop is in the office and I'm trying to hook up headphones in the bedroom.

The fact that the PC is supposedly "asleep" is a fallacy - it's ready and waiting to grab a Bluetooth connection that I'd rather have connect elsewhere.

I resolved the specific Bluetooth issue by shutting off Bluetooth on the Laptop. Perhaps I could stop Bluetooth from waking in sleep? But I'd prefer to address the problem rather than the symptom. Is there a way to get a sleep configuration that's more traditional i.e go to sleep with only memory active... waiting for me to open the machine and wake it up with the mouse or keyboard?

I believe the mode you're seeking is S3 or suspend to RAM. That's the mode I use. There's not enough detail about your system to derive if you have that option.

Try3 · Saturday at 5:02 AM

Levitate11 said:
I'm wondering if there's a Sleep Mode variation I've missed

I constrain S0 modern standby to its early phase during which it allows Task scheduler to run my scripts.
- Its later phases do not allow TS to operate.
See my post
Running scripts during S0 Modern standby - my post #86 - ElevenForum
for guidance on how to use Task scheduler during S0 Modern standby.
Since learning what I did from those tests, I have been able to use Task scheduler to run tasks during S0 Modern standby including using scripts to exit that condition and resume normal running.
Since running those tests, I have altered all my Task scheduler tasks so they can work with S0 Modern standby. Each batch script now starts with

Code:

:: Rouse the monitor
Set VBSScript="%TEMP%\%RANDOM%-RouseMonitor.vbs"
Echo Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > %VBSScript%
Echo WshShell.SendKeys "{F14}">> %VBSScript%
Call %VBSScript%

Example WakeTest - posted version.bat attached.

You can check power state transitions in Event viewer in order to see that your Task scheduler does bring it out of S0 Modern standby.
See Importing Event viewer, Custom views - my post #13 - TenForums

Do please note that you do not wake up a computer from S0 Modern standby because the computer is not asleep [not in S3 Sleep]. S0 Modern standby is an idle condition not a sleep state.

You might also like to read my post
Power consumption in S0 Modern standby and S3 Sleep - my post #85 - ElevenForum
which concluded that S0 Modern standby consumed as little power as a comparable computer consumed in S3 Sleep.

I no longer disable S0 Modern standby. If you are going to try disabling S0 Modern standby, make a new system image & check that your imaging utility's boot disk works before you start.
I have experimented a lot with this.
It has only gone seriously wrong in one instance but if I had not had the ability to boot into my imaging utility & restore the system image I would never have been able to recover from the hideous results of disabling S0 modern standby on that particular computer.
See also Disabling S0 Modern standby - range of experiences - my post #8 - ElevenForum

You can check which power-sleep states are available to you by running the command
PowerCfg -a

Denis

Levitate11 · Sunday at 8:54 PM

Thanks all. I'll do some reading. It's clearly S3 that I'd like... a real sleep mode.

I'll come back with questions once I have a feel for the details.

Try3 · Monday at 3:06 AM

Levitate11 said:
It's clearly S3 that I'd like

Then ask HP support or ask other HP users in their user forums.
Disabling S0 Modern standby can only get you S3 Sleep if the Bios has been written to allow you to do so.

Denis

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