What is the use of suspending windows? Better than shutting down the system?

We explain the processes that occur when suspending the system, how you can do it easily and the advantages it offers.

If you’ve ever wondered what System sleep in Windows 10 and 11 And what exactly does it do, you’re in luck because we woke up today wanting to educate you, just like Microsoft did recently with a few videos on Windows 11. functions behind these mods shutting down the system and what advantages one offers over the other.

What happens when I suspend the session?

When you suspend the session, Windows protects everything you do and whatever you’re working on, running apps, open files, tabs in your browser, etc. and switch to power saving mode. Therefore, the aim resume session quickly everything is ready to continue doing what you are doing. This is particularly useful for saving battery life when it comes to laptops or tablets.

By doing this, the computer supplies power to certain USB ports (especially those dedicated to it from the motherboard) and your RAM, but the power in this case is minimal, just enough to reserve information of processes and files in the process. So, do not believe that you can leave, for example, download a steam it only works when you resume the session to find that it’s finished.

components such as reduces processor performance to a negligible level, when graphics cards or hard drives or solid state drives are completely turned off. This means approximately one consumption. 20 or 30 W versus 1 W for a laptopor 600 W versus 10 W (or more watts when you have an RTX 40).

Shutdown or suspend Windows? Differences and preferences

To get started, continue the session later. suspension much faster to restart the computer from scratch. Also, you don’t need to run apps or open files again. On the other hand, the act of shutting down Windows is much slower because you always want to make sure that happens. everything is well maintained and well sealed so as not to lose information.

From here you have to choose which action suits you and, above all, when. So if you’re going to do something Lunch break or the most comfortable thing to stretch in the middle of the workday would be to suspend the session. continue where you left off as soon as you sit down. In fact, you may want to leave the night like this because you want to set off quickly in the morning.

It now takes very little time to boot up a computer with the SSDs we’ve had for years. took us 38 seconds turn on the computer and open the working pair of windows. Obviously we were prepared, but normally it wouldn’t take too long. With this, if you want to save this energy expenditure unnecessary for a long time, shut down systembut if you’re going to be back soon, or if you want to prioritize the absolute speed as you continue I am working, suspend seamlessly.

Four easy methods to suspend Windows

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