Microsoft quietly confirmed what users have been asking for: Modern Standby in Windows 11 will stop allowing most background activity to forcibly wake a sleeping PC and draining its battery, because beginning with Windows 11, version 24H2 the OS now limits wake sources when excessive drain is...
Modern Standby — the S0 “instant-on” model Microsoft promotes as the smartphone-like sleep for Windows laptops — has quietly become an Achilles heel for many users, turning closed lids into hot, battery-draining surprises and eroding trust in Windows as a travel-ready platform.
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I was looking at the switches for the powercfg utility and noticed there seemed to be a new one in 8.1, /sleepstudy. When I try it, the message says it will not run on my system. Has anyone tried it yet?