Are you always connected to internet?

Mal Capone · 07 Jun 2021

I have "network connectivity in standby" disabled in Advanced power management options. If I put my computer to sleep I want it to stay well asleep until I decide to wake it up.

Try3 · 07 Jun 2021

Mal Capone said:

I have "network connectivity in standby" disabled in Advanced power management options. If I put my computer to sleep I want it to stay well asleep until I decide to wake it up.

Mal,

If, as your comment implies, your computer has S0 Modern standby then it does not Sleep. Run the command

Code:

powercfg -a

to find out.

Proper Sleep [i.e. S3 Sleep] typically drains a battery at 0.5% to 1% each hour.
S0 Modern standby typically drains at about 10% an hour. It is an idle condition not a Sleep condition.

Denis

Mal Capone · 07 Jun 2021

I have S3 standby, but Windows prefers you keep internet connectivity during sleep anyway. I have also unticked "Allow this device to wake the computer" for my network adapter in device manager.

retexan599 · 07 Jun 2021

Try3 said:

If you are using 'proper' sleep [S3 Sleep] then Yes.
But if your computer uses S0 Modern standby then maybe Yes, maybe No. It needs to be checked. People often loosely refer to it as sleep but it is not.

If your computer is not capable of using S0 Modern standby then there is no uncertainty so run the command

Code:

powercfg -a

and, if yours does not support S0, then the matter is settled.

S0 is a glorified idle condition and one of my computers is cursed with it.

Denis

To put my desktop to 'Sleep', I right click on the start menu, hover over 'Shut down or sign out', then click on 'Sleep'. Whatever form of Sleep is invoked I do not know.

I see this from the command:
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> powercfg -a
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S3)
Hibernate
Hybrid Sleep

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.

Fast Startup
This action is disabled in the current system policy.
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Try3 · 07 Jun 2021

retexan599 said:

I have presumed that my desktop is disconnected from the internet (i.e., from my router) when I put the desktop in Sleep mode. Not sure if this is true or not?

Try3 said:

If you are using 'proper' sleep [S3 Sleep] then Yes.

retexan599 said:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> powercfg -a
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S3)
...
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
...
Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Your PowerCfg -a results show that you are not using S0 Modern standby and are using S3 Sleep therefore

Try3 said:

If you are using 'proper' sleep [S3 Sleep] then Yes.

retexan599 said:

To put my desktop to 'Sleep', I right click on the start menu, hover over 'Shut down or sign out', then click on 'Sleep'. Whatever form of Sleep is invoked I do not know.

The procedure was not in doubt. Computers with S0 can also use that procedure but its results are different.

Denis

pparks1 · 07 Jun 2021

My internet runs 24x7. I turn my computer off at night, and if i am not using it for X period of time during the day it goes to sleep. I don't take any other precautionary steps.

hdmi · 08 Jun 2021

Mal Capone said:

I have S3 standby, but Windows prefers you keep internet connectivity during sleep anyway. I have also unticked "Allow this device to wake the computer" for my network adapter in device manager.

Doing the exact opposite of whatever it is that Windows prefers has been on my list of main hobbies for 30 years.