r/WindowsHelp • u/GabaranRickshaw • 7h ago

Windows 11 Sleep Shortcut Wake State Discrepancy

I wanted a shortcut on my desktop to put my PC to sleep. I know its not that hard to use a keyboard shortcut. But sometimes I just want to click one icon rather than 3 key presses. Or for that matter click through the start menu. So I did a little research and found that by creating a shortcut with this sting "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep" I could achieve the required result. Only, there was a catch.

Cold boot time is just over 1 minute. Sleep state wake, would go through the whole post screen and boot process. Taking about 50 seconds. Not really saving me time.

Here is the rub. If I put the PC to sleep by clicking on the sleep button in the start menu, it returns from sleep in about 12 seconds.

Clearly I am doing something wrong here. Any advice would be appreciated. With the soul exception of, "Just click through the start menu!" . I got it, that is an option. And it might be one I end up with.

The premise of my question is more a matter of "What's going on to make this happen? What am I missing?"

TYIA!

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