Enabling Hybrid Sleep Mode in Windows 11

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The article guides Windows 11 users on how to adjust hybrid Sleep, a low-power function that mixes hibernation and sleep, providing rapid resume from sleep while preserving data during power failures. This is enabled by default on desktops but is normally switched off on laptops, though the article provides steps for enabling it.

This post shows students and new users steps to turn hybrid Sleep on or off when using Windows 11 to put it into a low-power state to save energy. Hybrid Sleep is a type of sleep state that combines Sleep and hibernation. In this state, all the data in RAM are written to the hard drive, similar to hibernation; then, the computer goes into a low-power sleep state.

Hybrid Sleep allows you to resume your computer quickly from Sleep, but if there is some kind of power failure while in Sleep, you can still restore and recover your computer from hibernation, so your data is not lost.

Hybrid Sleep is on by default for desktop systems but off by default on laptops. However, if you have a laptop and you want to enable this, the steps below will show you how to do that.

Follow the steps below to start turning hybrid Sleep on or off on Windows 11.

How to turn off or on hybrid Sleep on Windows 11

Hybrid Sleep helps protect you from data loss while your computer is in sleep mode. This feature is not enabled by default for laptop computers.

To turn it on, go to the Start menu, search for Control Panel, and select the relevant result, as shown below.

In the Control Panel settings pane, click on Hardware and Sound category.

There, click on the Power Options category.

On the Power Options settings pane, click the Change plan settings link as highlighted below.

Then select the Change advanced power settings link as highlighted below.

Then expand Sleep and change the settings for Allow hybrid Sleep to either On or Off, as highlighted below.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to turn hybrid Sleep on or off when using Windows 11. If you find any error, please report it in the comment form below.

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2 responses to “Enabling Hybrid Sleep Mode in Windows 11”

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    Anonymous

    Second paragrapgh “but if there is some kinD of power failure” just a teenie-tiny typo

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