Glad you love sleep mode Harry. It's also called suspend. It's also not new. I'm pretty sure I've seen it on laptops for around 20 years now.

You may need to set it up first. For example, the Dell laptop I just got from my employer doesn't have suspend or sleep as an option, but I haven't gotten around to Googling on how to get it set up on my new system. I know it can be done, because I've done it before, I just need the time to do the looking around.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by alt+f4. For me that closes the application I'm currently in. I usually go to the power option off my start button to shutdown, restart or suspend.

Finally, I don't worry about sleep and updates. The updates will be downloaded when you use your computer, and if they don't get updated overnight because your machine is sleeping or powered down, you could always apply them manually. I'll be curious to know if your computer will actually wake up out of sleep mode to install an update though.

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Subject: [VICUG-L] sleep mode, love it, but have a question

     HI all,

Sleep mode, what a fantastic revolution for computer users!!!!

For years, I have wished I could turn on a computer, and it would come on right away, in 5 seconds or less, then, I found out about sleep mode.

It does what it says folks, when I press a key, the computer comes on in
5 seconds, I timed it, it's incredible, and with my schedule, literally, every second, counts!!

And if folks want to know how to use sleep mode, here is how to use it:

step 1. Press alt f4, and you're in the menu, that says restart, shut down, or sleep.

step 2. Up arrow to sleep.

step 3, then, press enter, and your computer will go into sleep mode.

When you're ready to use it, just press any key, I use escape and the computer comes out of sleep mode!!!

It's incredible.

Now, my question. My problem is, this morning I come into my living room, and my computer is running, so, it came out of sleep mode, it must have been doing an update, in the middle of the night.

My question is, in the power options, I have my computer set to never turn off, but there are, of course, different options.

I'm thinking about, setting it to 30 minutes, and then it can go to sleep if there's no activity, but the problem is, what about Microsoft doing updates? Who knows how long it will take to do it's updates, I don't want it to turn off in the middle of an update.

I'm asking this, because I want Microsoft to give me updates, but I don't want the computer staying on, after it does the update, or updates, I want it to go back to sleep.

Any help is appreciated, but I do love sleep mode, and I want to continue to use it.

Harry


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