Why Won't My Dell Laptop Go To Sleep?

[Dave.]

Do you usually shut it down or just put it to sleep once you've finished?

If you shut it down while holding the shift key, does it work then?

Win10 doesn't actually shut down when you tell it to, it just goes into a hybrid sleep/hibernate. Holding shift down shuts it down properly.

Straws clutched etc...


https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons...

[Doofus]

Dave. said:

Do you usually shut it down or just put it to sleep once you've finished?

Neither. I just get up and walk away, which is why I want the screen to turn itself off.

[Sheepshanks]

This may be nonsense, but I always feel that shutting down at the end of the day allows it to clean itself up to a degree. Certainly even with the pretty rock solid ThinkPads that I've used for years, they quite regularly (maybe once a week of normal use) need to be be rebooted during the day to overcome some glitch or other.

[Doofus]

Sheepshanks said:

This may be nonsense, but I always feel that shutting down at the end of the day allows it to clean itself up to a degree. Certainly even with the pretty rock solid ThinkPads that I've used for years, they quite regularly (maybe once a week of normal use) need to be be rebooted during the day to overcome some glitch or other.

Yesh, I know, but I can't be arsed

It's not as if my laptop has to work very hard when it's awake. I use Outlook, Chrome and Excel, pretty much.