Set sleep time. Types of computer modes

But even while extending the life of hard drives, we are faced with another problem. This is noise coming from the computer and high power consumption in constant-on mode. To solve this problem, Windows has power management modes.

In XP everything is simple: standby and hibernation modes. The standby mode is very good. We press the button - the hard drives turn off, the screen goes dark, saving energy and creating silence, but the machine works and is ready to turn on at any key press on the keyboard or mouse.

In Windows 7 they went too far: they made three modes. These are, hibernation mode and hybrid sleep mode. And the translators have confused everything to the limit. Look, in XP there were and are, as we know, 2 modes: “Sleep mode” was designated as “waiting”, and the “Hybernate” mode was translated as “Sleeping”. Cheerful translators, in a word.

In Windows 7, "Hybernate" was called "Hibernation", and "Stand by" or "Sleep mode" was designated as "Sleep". And they also created a third mode, which is designated as “Hybrid sleeper”.

Without a glass of Coca-Cola, these modes are difficult to understand.

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I needed to make the same settings on the installed Windows 7 that correspond to the "Standby" mode in XP. And my adventures began...

In short, it has been experimentally revealed that the "Standby" mode in XP is the "Sleep" mode in Win 7, and the "Sleep" mode in XP is the "Hibernation" mode in Win 7.

During hibernation, the computer turns off completely, but the contents of the memory are written to a file on the hard drive. When turned on, the session is restored completely, as before the computer went into hibernation. This mode takes time, which feels a little longer than a normal Windows boot.

Separately, I’ll say about the hybrid sleep mode in Win 7. This is a combination of sleep mode and hibernation. A memory image is made and saved to the hard drive, similar to hibernation. At the same time, the computer does not turn off, but switches to reduced power consumption, as in sleep mode.

In Win 7, I am not interested in this mixed mode or hibernation mode. I need the “Sleep” mode so that I can turn off the screen and hard drives and turn everything back on in a few seconds (analogous to the “Standby” mode in XP). And for this, just, you need to dig a little deeper into the power settings.

But first, you need to configure the following in Device Manager:

Keyboard

Network adapter

Perhaps all these jackdaws will already be standing; so much the better. This is so that when you press a key on the keyboard or mouse, the computer wakes up.

Next, Start -> Control Panel -> instead of “category” select “icons”. At the bottom there will be “Energy Supplies”, click on it.

You can set up Sleep mode by choosing a power plan, such as Balanced. It’s better to disable “Sleep” in these settings and force the computer into this mode at night.

It’s better to set “Never”, more about additional power options below

You can activate the “Sleep” mode (other modes as well) from the keyboard if it has a Sleep button. Can be activated via the "Start" button. Previously, this mode, like any other, can be assigned to the power button, or you can not assign it, but select it from the drop-down menu:

What the power buttons do

Assigning modes to the power button and sleep button

You can shut down work, or you can choose sleep or hibernation

And a few more important settings. If we want the “Sleep” mode, but at the same time leave some default settings in the depths of our “Balanced” energy plan, then the “Sleep” mode simply will not work. This also applies to hibernation.

By default, hybrid sleep mode is set. We turn it off by going to the additional power settings, as in the screenshot, and turn on, if suddenly turned off, wake-up timers, in order to wake up the computer from the mouse.

Even with all this, there may be problems with the computer entering or exiting Sleep mode. Sometimes the whole computer freezes. Very often the monitor does not come out of sleep. The video card is most likely to blame here. This is especially noticeable on Radeons of the 7000 series. As an option to solve the glitch with the monitor waking up from sleep, you can try:

• update video card drivers

• update motherboard chipset drivers

• turn off the webcam and mouse from their sockets while checking sleep mode

• reset the BIOS by temporarily removing the battery and unplugging the power cord from the outlet

They say that the following can also help: change the PCI-E slot of the video card, change the jumper on the motherboard, update the BIOS, use a monitor and not a TV, change the socket of the video signal output cable to the monitor, play with wake-up timer modes, disable external card readers and usb -hubs, change the standard “Aero” theme to another one.

Instructions

To access all sleep mode settings, click right click mouse on the desktop and select context menu“Personalization” item (for Windows Vista and 7) or “Properties” (for Windows XP more than earlier versions).

Select the “Screensaver” section and click the active link “Change power settings”. In the new dialog box, open the “Hibernate Settings” menu and select the desired value for the “Put the computer to sleep” command. This will enable the laptop to automatically switch to this mode.

You can configure your laptop to go into sleep mode when you close the lid and return to working mode when you open it. To do this, in the Screen Saver section of the Personalization dialog box, go to the Power Options settings.

From the menu on the left side of the window, select “Action when closing the lid”, and then activate the “Sleep” value for the corresponding parameter. If you need to protect data on your computer from unauthorized persons, here also activate the command to request a password upon awakening. Then, when the laptop wakes from sleep mode, it will be impossible to start the system without entering the password.

Additionally, you can assign the laptop's power button to systemic action"Going into sleep mode." To do this, set the corresponding option to “Sleep” in the same dialog box in which you configured the operating system action when closing the laptop lid.

Please note

Settings automatic transition sleep mode can be performed not only on a laptop, but also on desktop computer. The user's actions in this case will not differ from those described above.

Useful advice

After making all the necessary settings, do not forget to confirm the changes made by clicking OK or “Apply”, otherwise the new settings will not take effect.

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If you need to urgently, turn off the computer as quickly as possible without resorting to simply unplugging power cord, or are you working with a large number programs that take a long time to save and open, or your computer takes too long to load when you turn it on, you can use the “Sleep” regime».

Instructions

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Scientists have calculated that a person spends about a third of his life on dream. It is also known that the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci devoted only 15 minutes a day to bliss. You can reduce the number of hours spent in bed by qualitatively increasing the level of your energy potential.

Instructions

The change can dramatically affect the need for rest. Changes must be made towards increasing the quality and decreasing the quantity of food. The fresher and more natural the products on your table, the less energy your body needs to spend on processing them. The fact is that natural, raw foods that have not been subjected to heat or chemical treatment contain special enzymes that allow food to digest itself. Consequently, the body has more energy for more useful activities.

Movement is life. This golden rule We have known everything since childhood, but we don’t always follow it. Meanwhile, the increase in movement is directly related to the number of “ dream new hours. Paradoxically, the more we move, the less time the body needs to spend sleeping in order to saturate the brain and other cells of the body with oxygen. Moreover, training, walking and any other physical activity can make dream deeper, which allows you to spend significantly less time on it.

By devoting at least 15-20 minutes a day to conscious breathing, you thereby prevent oxygen deficiency, which often causes long hours in bed.

They say that advanced yogis who meditate for long periods of time during the day completely lose the need for sleep. Therefore, if you devote at least a small part of your time to sitting in silence, it will more than pay off with sobriety of thinking and extra hours of wakefulness.

Completely give up stimulants that promise you energizer activity. Energy drinks, coffee and even seemingly harmless tea give a false feeling of vivacity, for which you will have to pay with your health one way or another. The most effective drinks that can energize you without consequences are freshly squeezed juices. A glass of water with lemon in the morning is a great start to a vigorous day full of energy.

Video on the topic

Please note

Any changes at first can give a completely different result than you expect from them. Don't stop - after your body goes through a period of ridding itself of accumulated toxins, your body's strength will increase significantly.

Useful advice

Before moving on to any practices related to reducing sleep time, make sure that you really have something to do with yourself in the free hours that appear.

Sometimes it’s convenient to pause work for a while computer(for example, during a lunch break), and then turn it on exactly at the moment of work when you left it - with running programs And open documents. To do this in the operating room Windows system sleeper provided mode.

You will need

• - computer;
• - administrator rights.

Instructions

Go to the Start menu and find Control Panel. Click on the “Hardware and Sound” section, and inside it, find the “Power button action” item. It is in the list in the left area of ​​the window. You can also click on the “My Computer” shortcut on your desktop and select the tab called “Control Panel” on the left side.

Set what action you want the computer to perform when you press the power button - namely, “Sleep”. Now every time you press the power button on system unit, the operating system will pause and shut down. Install necessary settings in paragraph " Password protection upon awakening." If you select "Request password" and the password itself is on your account is not specified, the operating system will ask you to set it.

Try to create a difficult password so that it is not connected to anything, but is some combination of upper and lower case characters. Click on the "Save Changes" button and you will be returned to the previous section. Go to the section “Setting the transition to sleep” mode» and set the necessary parameters. This way you can leave the computer while it is sleeping mode it will go away on its own after a certain amount of idle time.

When a sleeper is activated mode and the operating system saves the current data to the hard drive. When frequently “visiting” a sleeping person mode and on the hard drive a lot of space on the hard drive will be spent on storage temporary files, so you shouldn’t keep your computer on mode e sleep - wakefulness. Try to use this function on the computer in extreme cases. As a rule, the computer should regularly “rest” so that all components do not overheat and work normally. mode e.

Often the input password to enter the operating system becomes unnecessary function. How can I turn it off? It won't take you long to remove this customization option.

Instructions

Open your computer's control panel. Find the user account settings menu, there you can change all the login information for the operating system, set or delete a password, change the system user name, add a new one, and so on.

Select the option on the right side of the "Change Account" window. To navigate through the menu, use the left and right arrow buttons and backspace key. Click once on the account whose login settings you want to configure.

Click on "Remove" password" To complete this procedure, you will need to enter it in the setup window that appears to confirm that you are the owner of the computer.

If you want to log into Windows without entering the installed account password, start your computer in safe mode. To do this, when you turn on the computer, press the F8 key. In the operating system boot options that appear on the screen, select safe mode. Log in to Windows using a different account.

"Sleep mode" is most useful function, available for use on computers running the operating system Windows any versions. Using it, you can temporarily turn off your PC and quickly wake it up without waiting long loading time. Let's take a closer look at how to configure sleep mode in operating system Windows 10 for its proper functioning.

You can put your laptop to sleep using the keyboard. Manufacturers usually provide such function key on one of the buttons F1 - F12, depicting the “Z z” icon on it. It is activated by the key combination Fn + F1 - 12.

To put the computer into sleep state programmatic method Just go to the “Start” menu, click on the “Shutdown” button and select “Sleep mode” from the proposed options.

It is likely that this button will not be among the shutdown options. To add it, you need to do the following:

1. Click on the search icon located to the right of the menu“Start”, and enter the query “Control Panel”. Go to the first result.

1. Select the “Large Icons” view type, go down to the end of the list and go to the “Power Options” section.

1. In the window that opens, go to the “Action of the power buttons” item located in the left menu.

1. Click on the line “Change settings that are currently unavailable.”

1. Activate the “Sleep mode” item in the “Shutdown options” section and click on “Save changes”.

The sleep button will appear among the options to turn off your computer or laptop.

Without leaving the window in which we found ourselves in the last paragraph of the above instructions, you can configure the action of the power button, sleep button and closing the laptop lid to put it to sleep. For laptops, button parameters when operating on battery power and when operating from the network are configured separately.

Let's move on to consider the settings provided by the system in relation to the method we are analyzing to turn off the PC.

The setup can be done according to the following instructions:

1. We return to the power settings and click on the “Configure power supply scheme” button opposite the scheme that is used in at the moment. By default, the scheme used is set to "Balanced".

1. In the window that opens, you can configure the computer to automatically switch to “Sleep” after a certain amount time of inactivity. In addition, you can select the time after which only the display will turn off. We set the appropriate parameters for operation on battery and mains power, and then save the changes.

1. To go to more detailed settings mode, click on the line “Change additional options power" located in the same window.

1. Open the first group of settings, which has the name of the selected power plan. The group contains the “Require password on wakeup” setting, which is responsible for constantly requiring the system to enter a password when the computer wakes up from sleep. If you need to protect your data, it is recommended to set the values ​​to “Yes” in the appropriate items. If there is no need to constantly enter a password, you can select “No”.

1. Having completed the setup, go to the “Sleep” group of parameters. Open the “Sleep After” tab, where you can select the time interval for the PC to automatically go into “sleep”.

1. The last important change will be setting up wake timers. To gain access to them, you must expand the corresponding item. Wake timers are specific system operations and events that can “wake up” the computer from “sleep” without the direct participation of the user. Such events include the installation of a system update or the time for executing a task from the Scheduler. You can enable all wakeup timers, leave only important ones, or disable them completely to prevent unexpected PC awakenings.

Confirm any changes by pressing the “Apply” and “OK” buttons.

On this basic setup parameters can be considered complete. Let's move on to consider a fairly common problem in which a computer can spontaneously “wake up” even when wake-up timers are disabled.

Problems with spontaneous awakening

System events are not the only reason why a computer may wake up from sleep mode on its own. Another reason for such an awakening may be the activity of devices connected to the PC - most often, problems can be created by the keyboard, mouse, network adapter or USB controller.

To prevent your computer from waking up due to an accidentally pressed button on the keyboard or an accidental mouse movement, you must perform the sequence of actions described below:

1. Right-click on the “Start” menu and select “Device Manager” (you can also access it through the Control Panel).

1. For example, let's look at fixing a problem with a mouse. Expand the “Mice and other pointing devices” branch, then select the “HID-compatible mouse” option, right-click on it and select “Properties”.

1. Go to the “Power Management” tab and deactivate the “Allow this device to wake the computer from standby” option. Click on “OK”.

We repeat the above steps with keyboard and other devices. The scheme of action is absolutely the same in all cases.

Let's take a look at one last useful add-on.

Hybrid sleep mode

Hybrid sleep mode is a great combination of sleep mode and hibernation mode. It allows you to completely secure information in the event of power failures leading to the deletion of data from RAM - the system will take them from hard drive, which is not affected by turning off the power.

To activate this form of “sleep”, you need to return to the power plan settings, open the “Sleep” group and in the “Allow hybrid sleep mode” section set the value to “On”.

At this point, the analysis of the sleep mode parameters can be considered complete. Let's move on to summing up.

Conclusions

“Sleep mode” is a special operating scheme that saves energy, but at the same time maintains the operation of PC components in a gentle mode. In addition, “waking up” the computer from “sleep” occurs much faster than normal startup, which allows the user to immediately begin solving planned tasks.

Video instructions

We attach detailed video instructions in which all the above steps are carried out and explained sequentially.

The Windows operating system has several computer shutdown modes - these are normal mode (which completely turns off the PC), hibernation mode and sleep mode. The last two shutdown methods are justified when the user wants to interrupt work for a while, but there is no need completely, and wants to immediately return to his work environment, with everyone open source software and documents. What sleep mode is and how it differs from the one discussed earlier will be discussed in this article.

Computer sleep mode. What is it?

Hibernation or sleep mode is a state of a computer that is turned off, in which information about the current state is stored in, applications remain running and wait for operations from the user. The screen goes dark and stops hard drive And central processor. Power remains on RAM and other electronic components, ensuring the system starts from such a state. We can say that the computer is not turned off, but paused, and at the same time consumes very little electricity compared to full operation. To “wake up” the computer, simply move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard, after which the user can continue working from where they left off.

What is the difference between sleep mode and hibernation mode?

At first glance, hibernation looks similar to sleep mode and is intended to do the same thing as sleep mode. But the processes that occur when the computer turns off into hibernation are somewhat different. When a user issues a hibernation command, the computer saves current state systems are not in RAM, but on . After which the monitor, hard drive and cooling system turn off. Those. hibernation is an even deeper sleep with even more low power consumption, because there is no need to apply voltage to RAM, but only on internal clock and a minimum of components needed to run the system.

Hibernation mode is more designed for laptops in order to maximize battery conservation in this mode. If for desktop computer Electricity consumption in sleep mode is not so important, but for a laptop this aspect comes to the fore. The price for such savings is more long start from deep sleep, compared to simple sleep mode. But in any case, the system startup time is much faster than startup after a complete shutdown.

How to put your computer to sleep

Let's look at turning off the computer into sleep mode using Windows 7 as an example, as the most common system at the time of publication of the article.

Last update:22/02/14

Today I will tell you how to set up ( disable) sleep mode on a laptop with Windows 7.

A little background. At work, I worked on Windows XP for many years, and when I bought a computer for home, it also had this system installed, so I got used to it as if it were my own :).

But my old computer no longer suited me, so I bought new laptop With installed Windows 7. I can’t say anything bad about this system, and that’s not why I’m writing an article. It’s just that some settings that usually worked on the old computer had to be configured again on the new one, but I forgot to even think about it!.. Therefore, I received a couple of disappointments.

I got my first disappointment when I decided to record some important webinar for myself, but I couldn’t listen to it to the end. I turned on the video recording and left. Imagine my disappointment when, upon returning, I found my laptop peacefully sleeping. Naturally, I didn’t receive any recording then.

The second disappointment was when I decided to download a large file at night. Leaving the laptop on, I went to bed. He fell asleep with me.

It seemed to me that if some tasks were performed on the computer, it would not fall asleep. But no, he doesn’t care, it turns out, he falls asleep.

I had to look for where this sleep mode was “hidden”. I found it this way:

Start → Control Panel → System and Security → Power Options.

On your computer, the path may be shorter or longer, but the main thing is the beginning: Start → Control Panel, and the final point: " Power supply ».

In the left column you can select any setting for your laptop:

So create your custom plan. Just don’t forget to save all your changes!

Actually, I wouldn’t have remembered this if it weren’t for the situation with one of my friends. I shared something with her useful file, and threw it through Skype. And her Internet was slow, and it was nearing midnight. And now she is waiting for this file to download. I write to her: “Leave the computer and go to bed,” and she answers me: “The computer will turn off.” So I remembered how I was looking for where to turn off this sleep mode. I promised her that I would remember and write an article about it :).

Thus, I remembered myself and told you how to set up sleep mode on a laptop with Windows 7 and how to disable it.

And for good measure, here’s a video about how a big dog and a little kitten became friends: