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  2. Sleep mode - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows 2000 and later support sleep at the operating system level (ACPI S3 state) without special drivers from the hardware manufacturer, except of video adapters. Windows Vista's Hybrid sleep feature saves the contents of volatile memory to hard disk before entering sleep mode. If power to memory is lost, it will use the hard disk ...

  3. Hibernation (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 mirrors Windows 8 as noted by Microsoft. [3] Windows 10's hibernation algorithm is solid-state drive optimized. This behavior is carried over to Windows 11. Hibernation is often underused in business environments as it is difficult to enable it on a large network of computers without resorting to third-party PC power management ...

  4. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    Upon the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the ARM-specific version for large tablets was discontinued; large tablets (such as the Surface Pro 4) were only released with x86 processors and could run the full version of Windows 10. Windows 10 Mobile had the ability to be installed on smaller tablets (up to nine inches); [16] however, very few such ...

  5. To shut down, or not to shut down? That really is the question

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    Obviously, the state that uses the least amount of power is a full shutdown, followed closely by “hibernate”—and trailed significantly by “sleep,” which uses the most power.

  6. Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    If an independent installation of both, DOS and Windows is desired, DOS ought to be installed prior to Windows, at the start of a small partition. The system must be transferred by the (dangerous) "SYSTEM" DOS-command, while the other files constituting DOS can simply be copied (the files located in the DOS-root and the entire COMMAND directory).

  7. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista does display a progress indicator after resuming from hibernation, but it is an indeterminate progress bar instead of a determinate progress bar used in previous versions of Windows. Although it is possible to customize the action Windows takes when the hardware Power button is pressed, it is no longer possible to set power ...

  8. Shutdown (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Shutdown options have been moved from a separate dialog box to the start menu, in Windows Vista and later versions of Microsoft Windows. The above is from Windows 7 . In Microsoft Windows and ReactOS , a PC or server is shut down by selecting the Shutdown item from the Start menu on the desktop.

  9. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista now informs the user in a full-screen interface if there are running applications when exiting Windows or allows continuing with or cancelling the initiated shutdown. The reason registered, if any, for cancelling a shutdown by an application using the new ShutdownBlockReasonCreate API is also displayed.