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Customize Modern Sleep and Traditional Sleep Settings on Windows 10?

Hello - I understand Windows 10 has this new-ish feature called Modern Idle/Sleep which is different from the traditional sleep in previous versions of Windows. In this mode, the network remains on when sleep and certain background processes can proceed, which is nice; however, this drains battery and the laptop can get hot in bags.

I know one can disable/enable modern sleep via registry tweaks. Does anyone know if it's possible to customize this setting? As in, "modern sleep if idle for 10 minutes, but full on traditional sleep if idle for 30+ mins" for example? I'm curious to see if anyone knows a script/registry way to allow this.

Cheers!

Hi Justin. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

The solution is not to mess with Sleep which will cause unintended consequences.

The solution is to Shut Down,or HIbernate which shuts off power after writing the contents of RAM to the hard drive, then starts up and puts everything back where it was.

Sleep should only be an interim state that transitions when you step away from the PC and then goes in to Hibernate after enough time it's unlikely you will be coming back soon. The default is 360 minutes, I set mine to 90.

More on Hibernate here:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-or-disa...

https://pureinfotech.com/fix-hibernate-problems...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJgl_xo9Poc


Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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Last updated February 29, 2024 Views 623 Applies to: