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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?