If you had little working at that moment, with few resources being used, for example, then waking up should be quick however if you had a lot of items open, and were using a lot of resources at the time you enabled Sleep or Hibernation, then waking up could take a while since there's a lot more for the system to rekindle and recover before activity can commence again. With Sleep and Hibernation Modes, the speed of reawakening often depends on what you had open at the time you put the system into Sleep or Hibernation. Shutdown is exactly that - powering down the computer fully. Sleep and Hibernate Modes are both settings aimed at keeping your sessions active while you are away from your desk, with Hibernation being a deeper version of Sleep. Why?Ī: Most Windows machines allow for three means of system-based slumber: Sleep Mode, Hibernation Mode and Full Shutdown Mode.

Q: I have a Windows 10 computer and whenever I wake my system from Sleep Mode it seems to take forever before I can actually start doing anything on it.

Windows 10 wake up screen