Modern Standby is a newer sleep state and a successor to the legacy Sleep Standby mode.
It has both merits and demerits.
What Is Modern Standby?
This feature is designed to give you a mobile-like feel on Windows and it is introduced in 2020.
Therefore, you had better disable Modern Standby so as to improve the battery life of your PC.
Is only Balanced Power Plan available on your gear?
How to bring back missing power plans?
Keep reading this post to get the details.
How to Find Your PCs Current Sleep State?
Before disabling Modern Standby, you gotta peek if your unit supports this feature.
Proceed with the steps below to check your current sleep mode:
Step 1.
PressWin + Sto evoke thesearch bar.
Typecmdto locateCommand Promptand right-tap on it to chooseRun as administrator.
If you seeStandby (S0 Lower Power Idle) online grid Connected/Disconnected, you have enabled Modern Standby.
Then, you might checkStandby (S3)status.
After enabling it in BIOS, you’ve got the option to disable S0 by editing the registry.
If you see the system doesnt support the S3 state in BIOS, you gotta edit theACPItable.
How to Disable Modern Standby Windows 10/11?
you could manually modify the registry entry to disable Modern Standby.
PressWin + Rto open theRundialog.
Copy & paste the following location into the navigation bar and hitEnter.
In the right pane, right-punch the blank space > chooseNew>DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Right-select this new value to choose rename it asPlatformAoAcOverride.
Typenotepadand pressEnterto open a new Notepad file.
Copy & paste the following content to the notepad file and click onFileto chooseSave As.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power]
PlatformAoAcOverride=dword:00000000
Step 4.
Name the file asDisable_Modern_Standby.reg> chooseSave as typetoAll files> hitSave.
Double-press theDisable_Modern_Standby.regfile and hitYesif prompted by UAC.
CloseCommand Promptafter the operation is executed successfully.
Reboot your rig to apply the changes.
