If you urgently need to turn off your computer as quickly as possible without having to simply pull out the power cord, or you are working with a large number of programs that take a long time to save and open, or if your computer takes too long to boot during startup, then you can use " Sleeping mode ".
Instructions
Step 1
It is often useful to switch the computer to a mode in which it will consume less power during a user's absence. Peripheral devices such as a monitor, processor, optical disc drive, etc. are known to consume a lot of power. If the monitor can be turned off by pressing the power button on its case, then it is impossible to turn off individual parts of the system unit in this way. Special modes of operation of the Windows operating system come to the rescue, one of them is "Hibernation".
Step 2
Unlike Standby, in which the computer operates at a reduced power consumption, Hibernation shuts down the computer completely. When you switch to this mode, the current state of the computer (all running programs, open and not saved documents, all the contents of the RAM) is written to the hard disk, after turning it back on, the computer continues its work as if it had not been turned off at all. Sleep mode greatly speeds up the process of turning on and off your computer.
Step 3
To use the "Sleep Mode", you must activate it.
Open display properties by selecting the corresponding item in the context menu of the desktop. Go to the "Screensaver" tab and press the "Power …" button. In the window that opens, go to the "Hibernation" tab and check the "Allow the use of hibernation" checkbox. Go to the "Advanced" tab, if you want the computer to go into "Sleep mode" when you press the computer's power button, select the appropriate item in the drop-down list. Click Apply.
Step 4
Now the computer is ready to go into "Sleep mode", for this you can do one of the following: 1. Press the computer power button (if this method was activated in the settings).
2. In the "Start" menu, click the "Shutdown" button, in the window that opens, click on the "Standby mode" item while holding down the Shift key.
3. Open the "Task Manager" (by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl, alt="Image" and Delete keys), in the "Shutdown" menu, select the "Switch to sleep mode" item.
