Turn off sleep mode windows 8 update#
Turn off sleep mode windows 8 windows 8#

Plus, being that I use Linux a lot, I have to use it frequently anyway (it's called the 'terminal' on those OS's). While it may can be disabled through the power option menus, I prefer using the command line (cmd) options for these things, one has more control over their computer & tasks are accomplished faster.

Turn off sleep mode windows 8 windows 8#

On my two notebooks, both with Windows 8 Pro, being that they have SSD's, I disabled Hibernate using the cmd option that I showed above. Some are slow as molasses, loading & updating, if a 3rd party firewall is used, that also takes time. Also, the choice of security makes a difference too. The more that loads at Startup, the slower Windows will load. If in doubt, Google the app to get more info. Only the user would know what he/she needs during that time. Using CCleaner, I disabled it from firing up then, as well as other apps.

Left in default mode after install, it loads at boot, as evidenced in the Notification area.

Turn off sleep mode windows 8 update#

There was a recent update to one of my commonly used apps, EaseUS Partition Manager. If you run CCleaner, there's a Startup option in the Advanced menu, if not, these can be accessed through Task Manager, Windows 8 has a Startup tab there & the apps are rated as to severity of startup impact. Naturally, you need security to kick in at boot, however there's some services/apps that loads that's not needed at that time. One thing that will help load times is to disable services that you absolutely don't need at Startup. I've already created shortcuts for shutdown, hibernate and sleep which work OK. If the system is put into hibernate or sleep, it wakes up faster because those startup processes are already running. Even so, when the system boots from a previous shutdown it takes longer than coming out of hibernate or sleep because you have to wait for all the startup processes to startup (firewall, anti virus, etc, even with fast startup enabled in the power options). I understand that the system is not fully powered down in shutdown. However, if I shut down to save battery power, the system will not perform scheduled backup tasks, as it needs to be in either a malfunctioning sleep or hibernate state in order to wake to perform the tasks. I can turn off hibernate, but how do you turn off sleep? So, hibernate and sleep are messed up in all versions of Windows, including 8, and the advice is not to hibernate or sleep but shut down to save battery power, and also to turn off hibernate and sleep. Thanks for the replies, Cat and Technomage. In Power Options/Change plan settings/Change advanced power settings/Sleep/ hybrid sleep is disabled and wake timers are enabled In Power Options/System Settings/Change settings that are currently unavailable/ fast startup, sleep, hibernate and lock are all enabled. The overall power plan is balanced and the settings are the same whether on battery or plugged in. However, the time stamp in this file does not update with each hibernation, which only shows the time of the first bootup of the day.

My understanding also is that when you hibernate, the state of the system is saved in the hiberfil.sys file. However, the outward signs showing hibernate or sleep are different: in sleep the power light flashes on and off and the battery light is on, in hibernate the power and battery lights are off. Whether I hibernate or sleep the event in Event Viewer is the same: 'Event 42, Kernel Power The system is entering sleep' Whether the laptop wakes from hibernate or sleep the event is the same 'Event 1 - Power - Troubleshooter The system has returned from a low power state'.

It seems that the hibernate and sleep commands put the system into the same low power state. My understanding is that the laptop will not wake up from hibernate, but it does wake up from hibernate to perform a scheduled task. When I was using sleep I had the wake timers enabled to allow the laptop to wake to run scheduled backup tasks. I have started to hibernate the laptop when I'm not using it, instead of using sleep, to save battery power.