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by Aardwolf 436 days ago
> There used to be a simple registry edits you could do but Microsoft seem to have closed that loophole.

Why? I mean, what incentive does MS have to say "people are still trying to use the non-buggy sleep that doesn't cause fires, let's close the loophole to force using the buggy sleep"?
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layer8 436 days ago
Probably because "Switching between S3 and Modern Standby cannot be done by changing a setting in the BIOS. Switching the power model is not supported in Windows without a complete OS re-install."

Quote from, and more info about Modern Standby, here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

S3 is considered “legacy”: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

The main motivation for Modern Standby was to enable instant wakeup and push notification-like functionality during standby, like smartphones. That’s not possible with the traditional sleep modes. Unfortunately it doesn’t work as seamlessly as one would like.

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Aardwolf 436 days ago
What if I don't want push notifications and want laptop closed to mean to not do anything? Does this new mode still support that, or is the notifications and heat-up-in-your-backpack thing there on purpose and not disablable? In other words, is this new thing forcing this new behavior only, or does it also support the same things as S3 if you choose to want that?

Note that I use Linux and a less-than-a-year-old thinkpad that has traditional standby, but I'd like to know what the inevitable that's coming is

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ncann 436 days ago
The non-buggy sleep (S3) isn't even supported in the BIOS in many new laptops now (in the Dell I'm using for example). So MS probably decided to kill that option off for everyone. To be honest it's a very confusing situation since there are so many hardware configurations under Windows and if you search online I think some people are still able to disable S0 on their new laptop/latest Windows, but some (myself) definitely cannot.
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kasabali 436 days ago
> So MS probably decided to kill that option off for everyone.

not so, because of.

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