My laptop is empty in the bag while it was sleeping
Modern Standby S0 keeps the CPU partially awake for mail and notifications. A driver that fails to sleep keeps it active all night.
support/performance/modern-standby-drainsteps: 4
Try this first
- Run powercfg /sleepstudy and open the HTML report
- Look at Active vs DRIPS percentages, anything below 70% DRIPS is wrong
- Identify the offending driver or software in the top offenders
- Update WiFi, USB and chipset drivers to OEM versions
When to bring us in
If hardware cannot do S0 reliably: switch back to S3 hibernate in BIOS if supported.
See also
- My laptop is suddenly slowThree main suspects: a runaway background process, near-full disk, or a Windows update in progress.
- One specific application is slow for everyoneIf an app is slow for one person: local. For everyone at once: server side or vendor side.
- Opening files from the file server takes minutesOften the server itself is fine and the issue is network routing or stalling DNS resolution.
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