My laptop is warm in my bag in the morning, or will not wake up
Modern Standby (S0) keeps background processes alive during 'sleep'. On some laptops it runs wild: the laptop never truly sleeps and overheats in the bag.
Try this first
- 1Shut down fully or use 'Hibernate' for long breaks. Closing the lid only for short moments.
- 2Check Settings > System > Power & battery > Sleep settings. Set 'On lid close' to Hibernate instead of Sleep for bag time.
- 3PowerShell as admin: powercfg /sleepstudy. Generates a report of what kept your laptop awake. Often a specific driver or app.
- 4Wake timers off: powercfg /waketimers. Shows processes allowed to wake the laptop.
When to bring us in
Modern Standby that is structurally broken: we can adjust by policy or, via laptop firmware, revert to old S3 sleep. Not possible on every model.
See also
- My laptop is suddenly slowThree main suspects: a runaway background process, near-full disk, or a Windows update in progress.
- One specific application is slow for everyoneIf an app is slow for one person: local. For everyone at once: server side or vendor side.
- Opening files from the file server takes minutesOften the server itself is fine and the issue is network routing or stalling DNS resolution.
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