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Re: Different levels of sleep.

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 1 May 2025 10:45:08 -0700, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>On Thu, 1 May 2025 08:46:53 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
>> 
>> Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>> 
>> > WIWAL the "deep" sleep was called "Hibernate". The "light" sleep was
>> > called "Standby".
>> 
>> Now you have "modern standby"
>> 
>> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby>
>
>Oh lovely. And there's this gem:
>
>"Switching between S3 and Modern Standby cannot be done by changing a 
>setting in the BIOS. Switching the power model is not supported in 
>Windows without a complete OS re-install."
>
>Is there any reasonably straightforward way for to find out whether 
>one has S3 or Modern Standby? I think so, from this article:
>
>> https://www.windowscentral.com/how-determine-power-sleep-states-supported-windows-10
>
>My TL;DR take: in an admin command prompt, paste this command:
>
>powercfg /availablesleepstates


For my 9 y.o. laptop, built maybe for win8 shows what follows and my
desktop shows the same thing, exactly: 

 The following sleep states are available on this system:
    Standby (S3)
    Hibernate       -- elsewhere called s4
    Hybrid Sleep       **
    Fast Startup    -- not the same fast startup as is set in the BIOS.
Somehow they used the same words for both. There must be a word
shortage.

The following sleep states are not available on this system:
    Standby (S1)
        The system firmware does not support this standby state.
    Standby (S2)
        The system firmware does not support this standby state.
    Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)
        The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Below I quote pages that say S0 is standard operation status, but here
it says I don't have it. so I must not be operationg. ;-(   With so many
possible numbers, did they change the meaning of S0. Maybe there is a
number shortage. 

**So if I have available Hybrid Sleep and S3 standby, how come neither
is listed in my Shutdown options, only "Sleep".  and is Sleep one of
those two, Hybrid Sleep or S3, or maybe it's neither.  Oy. 

"With each successive sleep state, from S1 to S4, more of the computer
is shut down. All ACPI-compliant computers shut off their processor
clocks at S1 and lose system hardware context at S4 (unless a hibernate
file is written before shutdown), as listed in the sections below."
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/system-sleeping-states
Mine doesn't seem to mention s4, but it turns out that hibernate is s4.
suppose because it's 9  years old. 

>Modern Standby = "S0 lower-power idle", according to the article, and 
>I'm glad to see I don't have it.

Why don't you want it? 

Anyhow, according to several pages, including the one you list below: 
Working 	S0 	The system is fully usable. Hardware components
that are not in use can save power by entering a lower power state.

Googles AI, which I don't trust at all, says "S0 (Active):
This is the standard working state where the computer is fully
operational"  which is pretty close to what the pages I do trust say. So
maybe you have S0 but S0 on win10 is not lower power idle?????   Or
maybe lower power idle is not as idle as it sounds? 

>This next article gives clear and detailed descriptions of the 
>various sleep states. That helps in interpreting the output of the 
>above powercfg command:

Oh, you already have a link to explain it 

>> https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63346-sleep-states-available-your-windows-10-pc.html
>
>Here's that article's explanation of Hybrid Sleep (which powercfg 
>says I have):
>
>"Hybrid sleep, used on desktops, is where a system uses a hibernation 
>file with S1-S3. The hibernation file saves the system state in case 
>the system loses power while in sleep."

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