Why does "sleep" go to "hibernate" after awile?

When I'm not done using my laptop for the day, I put it in sleep mode so it starts up faster when I turn it back on. When I do this when the laptop is plugged into an electrical outlet, this seems to work alright, but if it's not plugged in and just running on battery, it only stays in sleep mode for maybe a half hour or so, and then seems to go to hibernate. I say this because when I turn the computer back on any later than that after being in sleep on battery power, the black "DELL" screen pops up first for awhile, just as if I had hibernated the computer. Normally after being put to sleep, the lock screen comes up right away.

Is there a setting to change so that it stays in sleep mode?

Brink said:

Hello Delly,

This is normal when you have hibernate enabled, and for what you have set in Sleep > Hibernate after in Power Options.

To stop this, you can either disable Hibernate, or set "Hibernate after" to "Never".

Enable or Disable Hibernate in Windows 10

Change Power Plan Settings in Windows 10

Yes, it turned out to be a power plan setting. I found that it was set to hibernate while in sleep mode while operating on battery after 180 minutes, although it seems like it's been hibernating far sooner than that. The "plugged in" time to go from sleep to hibernate was 1080 minutes. I changed the battery sleep time to match. We'll see if that changes anything.

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Compumind said:

Hi.

Do these resources help you?

Sleep States Available on your Windows 10 PC
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...sleep-settings
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...d-line-options

Please post back.

Thanks.

It did! I went to power plan settings and found the adjustment to make.