jetjock wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:05:02 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
Tim wrote:

I put my system to sleep [...] what is Windows doing for those two
minutes that results in continuous disk activity?
writing to the hiberfil.sys file?
S3 Sleep
S3 Hybrid Sleep (writes to hiberfil.sys first, then sleeps) --- power safe
S4 Hibernate (writes to hiberfil.sys) --- power safe

From an Administrator Command Prompt

powercfg /h off

disables both Fast Start and removes the hibernation file,
so that Hybrid Sleep and Hibernate are no longer options,
and when you select Sleep, the delay for Sleep to start
is a lot less. It's still not a zero delay, but there's
less trailing-end-writes when you try to sleep Win10.

I disable hibernate, just to reduce the size of the space
taken by hiberfil.sys on SSD drives.

Paul

My wife's Win 10 machine does have the sleep option--only hibernate.
Is there a way to get sleep back, or is there no sleep mode in Win 10?

At one time, there were two tick boxes for this.

https://winaero.com/blog/add-hiberna...in-windows-10/

And I just tested here, and they're still accessible.

1) To get to Control Panels, you can use Right-Click-Start : Run or you
can use Cortana and try "control" there as a word to type in.

2) Then, it's Power Options in the Control Panels.

3) There is a Power Button item at the top of the left menu. Use it.

4) Below the text in the resulting window, is an option to
make the "missing" buttons visible and ready-to-edit.

5) After that, tick the boxes as desired.

https://s13.postimg.org/fxgyibug7/sl...er_options.gif

Paul