Windows 10 Modern Standby is the Power mode which expands the windows 8.1 Connected Standby Power mode. Before Proceeding to the topic, you need a basic understanding of windows system power states and about connected Standby Power Mode. Let’s jump into the topic. If you are a windows user then you must aware of sleep, hibernation, Restart (Soft off), and Shutdown. These are known as the System Power States. A typical PC or Mac with an Intel or AMD chip has different types of power states, In Laptop, you experience Sleep mode, when you close the lid the laptop immediately enters into sleep mode, In sleep mode, your Computer maintains power to its memory so that it can start up very quickly. Next, if you leave your computer for a while then your system automatically switches to hibernation mode. In hibernation, your PC saves all the contents and your work of its memory to the hard drive and shutdown. Next time when you boot your system it loads the system state back from the hard drive and restores everything you have open.
This shows that both sleep and hibernation is used to allow your computer to save its current state and get back to it more quickly when booting it again. These modes utilize very low power or you can say the computer is basically off. At these modes, your computer can save its current state but it can’t update or do anything. To overcome this Microsoft introduce connected standby, think about smartphones and tablets. Nowadays everyone holding smartphones or tablets. If you let your smartphone either it’s android or iPhone for a certain amount of time. The screen turns off automatically and the device goes into very low-power mode. At this mode, your smartphones or tablets will receive notifications, emails, and other apps tasks. This mode is not like windows PCs sleep or hibernation.
Smartphones or tablets at this low-power mode receives notification, this mode does this by frequently waking up the phone and checking for any changes, and putting the phone back to the hibernation mode so you never have to wait for your smartphones to boot. Microsoft did the same thing to PCs connected standby is a low power state that allows windows 8 and windows 8.1 to function more like a smartphone or tablet. Also its supports on Windows RT devices like the Surface RT and Surface 2, but Intel is also working on adding support for Connected Standby to its own CPUs so Intel-powered tablets can catch up to ARM devices. Your PC will work more like your phone.
And as I mentioned above Windows 10 Modern Standby is the Power mode that expands the windows 8.1 Connected Standby Power mode. And it has two Primary goals. Modern Standby enables faster instant on/instant off experience for windows devices. And it expands support for hardware, which was limited in connected standby. Modern Standby offers two modes connected and disconnected. Find more about Modern standby here.
Check your windows PC Supports Modern Standby
Most of the laptops don’t support modern standby. Microsoft doesn’t release any list of compatible computers or hardware for users, and most laptop vendors don’t include Modern Standby compatibility on their spec sheets. So we have to check it manually, this article will guide you to check your Windows PC supports Modern Standby.
Open command prompt with admin mode. Now type the following command and hit enter.
powercfg /availablesleepstates OR Powercfg /a
Using these Commands you can find the list of available Sleep states on your computer. And next, it shows the list of not available sleep states on your computer. In my system only S3, Hibernate, Fast Startup are available.
But Modern Standby is known as S0, If your computer show S0 in the available sleep state then your computer supports modern standby or connected standby otherwise no luck.
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