There is no option in the Start menu or in Power Options Sleep mode. There is only Shutdown And . How can I fix the problem so that sleep mode appears in the list?

This is what it looks like on Windows 10:

• in the Start menu:

• in the settings of actions when the power button is pressed and when the lid is closed:

In most cases this happens because The original video adapter driver or several drivers are not installed .

Run device Manager. If in the section Video adapters you see Basic video adapter (Microsoft)., this means the video card is running on a simplified driver.

Install the native driver from the official website. You can try downloading it through the function Update drivers:

Wait for the driver installation to complete:

After installing the original driver, the video adapter must contain the manufacturer's name - Intel, AMD or nVidia:

Now Sleep mode available in the system:

Sleep mode available

We remind you! For the computer to function correctly, you must install original drivers for everyone devices.

But even while extending the life of hard drives, we are faced with another problem. This is noise coming from the computer and high power consumption in constant-on mode. To solve this problem, Windows has power management modes.

In XP everything is simple: standby and hibernation modes. The standby mode is very good. We press the button - the hard drives turn off, the screen goes dark, saving energy and creating silence, but the machine works and is ready to turn on at any key press on the keyboard or mouse.

In Windows 7 they went too far: they made three modes. These are, hibernation mode and hybrid sleep mode. And the translators have confused everything to the limit. Look, in XP there were and are, as we know, 2 modes: “Sleep mode” was designated as “waiting”, and the “Hybernate” mode was translated as “Sleeping”. Cheerful translators, in a word.

In Windows 7, "Hybernate" was called "Hibernation", and "Stand by" or "Sleep mode" was designated as "Sleep". And they also created a third mode, which is designated as “Hybrid sleeper”.

Without a glass of Coca-Cola, these modes are difficult to understand.

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I needed to make the same settings on the installed Windows 7 that correspond to the "Standby" mode in XP. And my adventures began...

In short, it has been experimentally revealed that the "Standby" mode in XP is the "Sleep" mode in Win 7, and the "Sleep" mode in XP is the "Hibernation" mode in Win 7.

During hibernation, the computer turns off completely, but the contents of the memory are written to a file on the hard drive. When turned on, the session is restored completely, as before the computer went into hibernation. This mode takes time, which feels a little longer than a normal Windows boot.

Separately, I’ll say about the hybrid sleep mode in Win 7. This is a combination of sleep mode and hibernation. A memory image is made and saved to the hard drive, similar to hibernation. At the same time, the computer does not turn off, but switches to reduced power consumption, as in sleep mode.

In Win 7, I am not interested in this mixed mode or hibernation mode. I need the “Sleep” mode so that I can turn off the screen and hard drives and turn everything back on in a few seconds (analogous to the “Standby” mode in XP). And for this, just, you need to dig a little deeper into the power settings.

But first, you need to configure the following in Device Manager:

Keyboard

Network adapter

Perhaps all these jackdaws will already be standing; all the better. This is so that when you press a key on the keyboard or mouse, the computer wakes up.

Next, Start -> Control Panel -> instead of “category” select “icons”. At the bottom there will be “Energy Supplies”, click on it.

You can set up Sleep mode by choosing a power plan, such as Balanced. It’s better to disable “Sleep” in these settings and force the computer into this mode at night.

It’s better to set “Never”, more about additional power options below

You can activate the “Sleep” mode (other modes as well) from the keyboard if it has a Sleep button. Can be activated via the "Start" button. Previously, this mode, like any other, can be assigned to the power button, or you can not assign it, but select it from the drop-down menu:

What the power buttons do

Assigning modes to the power button and sleep button

You can shut down work, or you can choose sleep or hibernation

And a few more important settings. If we want the “Sleep” mode, but at the same time leave some default settings in the depths of our “Balanced” energy plan, then the “Sleep” mode simply will not work. This also applies to hibernation.

By default, hybrid sleep mode is set. We turn it off by going to the additional power settings, as in the screenshot, and turn on, if suddenly turned off, wake-up timers, in order to wake up the computer from the mouse.

Even with all this, there may be problems with the computer entering or exiting Sleep mode. Sometimes the whole computer freezes. Very often the monitor does not come out of sleep. The video card is most likely to blame here. This is especially noticeable on Radeons of the 7000 series. As an option to solve the glitch with the monitor waking up from sleep, you can try:

• update video card drivers

• update motherboard chipset drivers

• turn off the webcam and mouse from their sockets while checking sleep mode

• reset the BIOS by temporarily removing the battery and unplugging the power cord from the outlet

They say that the following can also help: change the PCI-E slot of the video card, change the jumper on the motherboard, update the BIOS, use a monitor and not a TV, change the socket of the video signal output cable to the monitor, play with wake-up timer modes, disable external card readers and usb -hubs, change the standard “Aero” theme to another one.

In this article we will talk about all the most important aspects of setting up Sleep Mode in the Windows 7 operating system.

OS settings Windows 7 And Vista

In order to configure the computer to go into sleep mode after a specified period of inactivity, you need to configure the settings in the appropriate section of the Windows 7 Control Panel.

Open the Start menu and select Control Panel. If the default view of the panel is in Category mode, change it to Small Icons mode.

Find a link to “Power Options” in the list of items. Here, as the name suggests, hides tools for configuring your system's power settings (if you're using a desktop computer, we recommend activating the standard "Maximum Performance" plan by default).

To start setting up sleep mode, click on the “Set up power plan” link next to the default activated plan. The screenshot below shows an example of displaying the settings menu on a laptop. If you are setting up a desktop computer, the Battery Power section will not be displayed.

Select the period of time you need after which the computer will be put into sleep mode. Gradation - from 1 minute to 5 hours.

If you are using “Sleep mode” (“Standby mode”) in Windows 7 or Vista, you probably noticed an unpleasant feature: the slightest movement of the mouse wakes the computer from rest (for example, if you accidentally hit the table).

Sometimes it's very annoying. For example, the system can wake the computer from sleep mode while watching a movie on a home theater when high volume sound effects cause furniture to vibrate.

To get rid of this inconvenient feature of the system, you need to do the following:

• Open the Start menu »
  • Control Panel "
  • Device Manager "
  • "Mice and other pointing devices" tab"

• Power Management tab »

• Uncheck the " Allow the device to wake the computer from standby mode»»
• Click "OK"

After applying this setting, the computer will no longer be awakened from sleep mode by an accidental twitch of the mouse. In the future, to wake the system from standby mode, use the keyboard - simply by pressing any key.

If anyone doesn’t know, constantly turning on and off a computer or laptop can have a negative impact on the performance of the “hardware” components installed in them, since this may result in voltage surges that disable the equipment. But what should you do if you need your computer to perform everyday tasks or work at certain intervals, and it is not recommended to turn it off? For this purpose, so-called sleep and hibernation modes are provided. How sleep mode or hibernation is configured, and which parameters are most preferable, will be discussed further. Let us separately dwell on possible problems associated with setting certain options. But first, let's look at what the fundamental differences between the modes themselves are.

Sleep mode and hibernation: what's the difference?

Hibernation mode has been known to most users since the release of the first-born in the line of Windows operating systems, which were versions 95 and 98.

Only in them, initially, sleep was designed only to ensure that the cathode ray tubes of the monitors did not burn out, and screensavers or so-called screensavers were used as the main tool for falling asleep on the computer. Over time, sleep became necessary to prevent hardware equipment from wearing out, which could be affected by power surges, overheating, etc. Hibernation appeared relatively recently (only in Windows Vista) and was a novelty for many at that time.

What is the difference between normal sleep and hibernation? The problem is that when you go into sleep mode, only those components that do not take part in maintaining the functionality of currently active programs are de-energized on the computer, and when hibernation is used, the power is turned off for all equipment. Data from running applications is saved in a special file hyberfil.sys, which is located in the system partition and can take up quite a lot of space on the hard drive.

Basic sleep mode settings in Windows

Now directly about the main parameters of both modes. You can access them through the “Control Panel” in the power section. In the case of laptops that have special batteries installed, setting sleep mode in Windows 7 or any other system can be accessed through the RMB menu on the battery icon in the system tray. What's most interesting: the menu itself has options for adjusting screen brightness and power management, but selecting each of them leads the user to the same section. In this case it doesn't matter.

The first thing you should pay attention to is the power button options (item in the menu on the left). In the main parameters, you can select several action options (including sleep). When accessing currently unavailable options using the corresponding link, you can additionally set the lock and display the option to switch to sleep mode in the start menu.

Additional features for laptops

For laptops, you can select additional options in setting sleep mode. Firstly, different or identical parameters can be set for both mains and battery operation.

Secondly, you can configure the actions performed by the system when the lid is closed (you can also access these settings through the main menu in the power section itself). So, for example, if you set the sleep mode when you close the lid, the laptop will “fall asleep” on its own.

Sleep and Wake Settings

Along the way, you should pay attention to the settings for turning off the display, where you can select a certain time period, after which the screen will turn off automatically. By and large, there is no point in using such settings on modern laptop screens or modern monitors. Basically, such parameters are set by office workers to hide everything that is displayed on the screen.

But if you go directly to the sleep mode settings item in Windows 10 or in systems below, you can get access to additional options that are not available in any other section (if you pay close attention to the remaining parameters, it is easy to notice that most of them are duplicated) .

But here there are many interesting options regarding the management of many hardware and software components (hard drive, screen, USB devices, battery, network adapter, video card, access to multimedia functions and even control of the “Desktop” design). Again, the sleep mode settings for laptops in this section are more varied, but the essence comes down to setting time intervals for turning off components, allowing or prohibiting certain actions.

Separately, it is worth saying that very often you can notice the computer waking up without permission, for example, if you accidentally caught the mouse. To avoid such situations, hardware that can cause the computer to wake from sleep must be configured accordingly.

It is best to make this setting through the “Device Manager”, where on the power management tab you need to activate the option to prohibit the computer from waking up from sleep mode.

Hibernation Control

Finally, let's look at setting up sleep mode in terms of whether or not to use hibernation. In some cases, it is recommended to replace it with normal sleep, which is especially important for computer systems with small hard drives. The hibernation file, which takes up a lot of space in the system partition, cannot be deleted manually (no access rights at the administrator level or unlocking programs will help). There is only one way to get rid of it, which is to completely disable hibernation. Do this through the command line, called as administrator, by executing the combination powercfg -h off. When you reboot, the file will be deleted automatically.

Possible problems associated with the installed parameters

It remains to say a few words about possible problems that may arise after installing certain sleep mode options. Very often it is recommended to immediately deactivate fast startup, if possible not to use passwords, not to disable the hard drive or USB ports, etc. Very often, such actions are used as additional solutions even when eliminating some malfunctions of the installed equipment. Among other things, you can change sleep or hibernation settings through the registry or group policies if they turn out to be unavailable for the selected scheme, but the methods given above are simpler for the average user.

For each system, a state is provided in which the system goes into the so-called sleep, in which all active processes stop before waking up. Sleep mode in Windows 7 is as integral a part of the system as turning it on and off. In this article we will look at the main points of this function - how to turn sleep mode on or off in Windows 7, the main errors and problems.

Turning on and off

Sleep mode is primarily aimed at saving energy on your PC. If it is important for a laptop to preserve battery charge, then for a desktop computer this function may interfere. In any case, each user has his own goals for using a computer.

You can turn sleep mode on and off in the Windows Control Panel, where basic system configuration is performed.

• To do this, find "Start" in the taskbar and go to Control Panel.

• Or in the Run window (shortcut Win + R) write control and click OK to go to Control Panel.

The device's sleep is controlled by the power settings. It is in the power plans (or diagrams) that the sleep settings, device on/off, and other Windows settings related to saving energy and turning off the device are specified.

• Select the viewing option Large or Small icons and go to settings "Power supply".

Setting up sleep mode on Windows 7 is done for each individual scheme, and you can either change the sleep time (increase or decrease) or completely disable this functionality.

• Opposite the scheme you are using, click on the button called "Setting up a power plan".

• Where you can set the required time not only for sleep, but also for turning off the monitor or display after a certain amount of time has passed.
• In meaning “Put the computer into sleep mode” select the desired time, but if you need to turn it off, select “Never”.

• For laptops, there will be a choice of going to sleep, both when powered by a battery or from the mains.
• Also, if the selected time gradation does not suit you, then you can configure the Windows 7 computer to go into sleep mode and exit from it in the electrical circuit settings. To do this, in the same window, click "Change power settings".

• In a new window, expand the “Sleep” branch, expand “Sleep after” and specify the desired time of PC inactivity so that it automatically falls asleep. Time is indicated in minutes.

This is interesting! Many users ask, Windows 7 hybrid sleep mode, what is it and how is it different from regular sleep mode? Hybrid mode is an analogue of hibernation in laptops, only created for personal computers. Hibernation - energy saving, in which Windows saves all active processes and applications in the hard drive memory and actually turns off.

The difference between normal sleep and hibernation is that if you turn off the computer while in sleep mode, all open files will be lost because Windows is paused. And during hibernation, if you turn on the computer, all applications will be restored, as they were saved to the drive. Hybrid sleep mode is enabled by default on PCs.

Errors

Let's look at the most common errors, the absence of a sleep mode in the shutdown list, when the computer does not turn on or, on the contrary, does not fall asleep, as well as the reasons that may interfere with this.

Sleep missing from PC shutdown options

Sometimes, on a clean installed Windows, users may not find sleep or hibernation mode in the general shutdown list. This error may be due to the lack of a video card driver, which is partly responsible for the sleep of your device.

To correct this situation, you should do the following:

• Open first "Device Manager"- then find the Run item (Win+R) and write devmgmt.msc, then click on OK.

• Expand the list of video cards - select a discrete video card (some devices have 2 video adapters - built-in and discrete, discrete is usually more powerful and works in priority).
• Right-click on it and select "Update driver"
• The Windows system should automatically find the latest driver in the update center, if, of course, it was provided by the manufacturer of this video card. If there are several video adapters, update for all devices.

• If no fresh drivers were found or simply did not help, you need to update the drivers yourself. To do this, go to the device manufacturer's website and search for the model of your video adapter.

Then install the driver. In case of errors or failures, it is recommended to perform a clean installation of the driver. Either through the installer settings (a clean installation item, in which the old driver is completely removed and a new one is installed) or through the Display Driver Uninstaller utility, which can also remove and clean the video adapter driver for subsequent installation.

• After installing the new driver, restart your PC and make sure that sleep mode (sleep) is now active.

Important! If the above tips did not help, and there is still no sleep mode, you need to install the chipset driver, which is responsible for the device’s power plans. For some motherboards, there is a separate ACPI power driver that should already be included in the chipset driver

You can download the chipset or ACPI driver from the website of the motherboard or laptop manufacturer.

PC won't wake up from sleep

There have been cases when Windows 7 did not wake up from sleep mode when pressing the keyboard or mouse. Let's look at this case in more detail.

First of all, check whether the keyboard and mouse can wake the device from sleep. To understand this, open "Device Manager"- then the Run window (Win + R) and enter devmgmt.msc, then click OK.

First, let's check the keyboard. Expand the "Keyboards" list, right-click on the keyboard and select Properties. In the window that opens, go to the tab "Power Management". Make sure the checkbox next to the item is checked “Allow the device to wake up the PC from standby mode”.

We check the mouse in the same way.

Important! Often the cause of this error may be a conflict between the driver and the enabled fast startup, which is absent in Windows 7. But in Windows 8 and higher, the error is “cured” by disabling this function and updating the ACPI driver.

PC won't sleep

Sometimes, after updating Windows or drivers, the device does not go into sleep mode on Windows 7 after the required period. In this case, you need to check whether all settings are correct and whether sleep mode is enabled.

• First, try hibernating your PC yourself.
• If everything is fine, try setting the sleep mode value for 1-2 minutes and wait a little. If during this time the PC “does not fall asleep,” the problem must be solved.
• First, let's disable wake timers and the prohibition on entering sleep mode for multimedia. To do this, go to the advanced settings of the power plan and in the Sleep branch, for the parameter "Allow wake timers" For all items, set the value to “Disable”.

• In the same settings, only in a branch Media options, for parameter "When sharing media" set the values "Prohibit transition..."

• After this, you need to open the Command Prompt window, in the Run window (Win + R) enter the cmd command and click OK
• We will need to find out which devices are preventing the computer from falling asleep. To do this, enter the command:

Powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

A list of devices that may be preventing the device from entering sleep mode will be displayed. To disable this feature, enter the command:

Powercfg -deviceenablewake "value"

Where instead of “value” you need to enter a device from the previously proposed list. It is worth noting that you must enter the same as written in the list, for example:

Powercfg -deviceenablewake “HID Keyboard”

• If none of the proposed options helped and the computer still does not enter (does not turn on) sleep mode in Windows 7, then try updating the video card and ACPI drivers from the “PC does not wake up from sleep” item.

In this article, we figured out how to set automatic sleep mode in Windows 7, setting the transition (required time), as well as the main problems associated with this function.

Have a great day!