How Do I Put Programs To Sleep

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How Do You Put Programs To Sleep
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When your Mac is asleep, it uses much less energy than when it's awake, and waking a Mac from sleep is much faster than turning it on and waiting for it to start up.

Dec 04, 2019 After electing to put background processes 'To sleep' with Avast Cleanup to improve performance, (Adobe Reader and Adobe Photoshop Elements 12) the programs could not be opened until I uninstalled the Avast Cleanup program. My understanding was that the programs would start on demand when needed. The environment is Visual COBOL 2017 and the objective is to put a program into sleep mode for one minute. Looking in the COBOL manual there is a System Routine of CBL GC NANOSLEEP that will do the job but the call to this routine fails (not found). It’s important to note here that the computer automatically goes to sleep in case you close the lid of your laptop or you leave your computer idle but there’s no option to voluntarily put the computer to sleep. There’s no “Sleep”button in the power menu but fret not, here’s how you can enable the Sleep. Find out what program is interrupting Windows Sleep mode. When you just want your computer to go to sleep and stay asleep, this is how you can make sure that happens.

Put your Mac to sleep

Choose Sleep from the Apple menu .
On a notebook computer, close the lid.
Use a sleep keyboard shorcut.

Wake your Mac from sleep

Press a key, or click your mouse or trackpad.
On a notebook computer, open the lid.
Briefly press the power button.

Change Energy Saver settings

Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Energy Saver.

Mac notebook computer

Mac desktop computer

Availability of each setting depends on your Mac model and version of macOS.

Automatic graphics switching
Allow your Mac to automatically use its lower-power graphics chip for low-intensity tasks such as text editing. Learn more about setting graphics performance.

Battery Health
Learn about battery-health management.

Computer sleep
Set how long your Mac must be idle before it automatically goes to sleep.

Display sleep
Set how long your Mac must be idle before it automatically stops the video signal to the display and puts the display to sleep, causing it to become dark or turn off. If the display has a power indicator, it might show that the display is in low-power mode.

Enable Power Nap
Allow your Mac to perform certain tasks while sleeping, such checking email, receiving Calendar updates, updating software, or making Time Machine backups. This uses more energy than when your Mac is fully asleep, but less energy than when it's awake. Learn more about Power Nap.

Optimize video streaming while on battery power
When playing high dynamic range (HDR) video while on battery power, play the video in standard dynamic range (SDR), which uses less energy.

Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
Prevent your Mac from sleeping when the display is turned off or goes to sleep.

Put hard disks to sleep when possible
Allow the motor of a traditional hard disk to turn off after a period of inactivity. This doesn't affect solid-state drives (SSDs), which have no moving parts. If using a traditional disk with certain pro media apps or other apps that prefer uninterrupted access to the disk, you might want to deselect this setting.

Schedule
Set a daily schedule for putting your Mac to sleep or turning it off or on.

Shutdown options
Set your Mac to shut down based on conditions that apply when your Mac is drawing power from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).

Slightly dim the display while on battery power
Allow your Mac to save energy by slightly reducing the brightness of the display while on battery power.

Start up automatically after a power failure
Allow your Mac to automatically start up when AC power is restored after a power interruption.

Turn display off after
Similar to ”Display sleep,” above.

Wake for network access
Allow your Mac to automatically wake when another device accesses its shared resources, such as shared printers or Music playlists. Some of these tasks might prevent the computer from sleeping when idle.

You can also save energy by adjusting your display’s brightness and the brightness of your backlit keyboard.

How Do You Put Programs To Sleep

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After several hours of sleep, your Mac can save more energy by saving its state to the startup disk, then turning off power to some components, such as RAM. This extends the length of time that Mac notebook computers can stay asleep while on battery power.

It also helps prevent you from losing work if your Mac loses power while asleep, such as after the battery runs low. In that case, plug your Mac into AC power, then press the power button. You might see a progress bar onscreen as the previously stored contents of memory are copied from the startup disk:

Learn what to do if your Mac doesn't sleep or wake when expected.

All laptops have a special low-power mode, called Stand By mode or Sleep mode. In this mode, the computer is still on but power to certain areas is shut off. That way, you can keep the laptop ready for an extended period without wasting a lot of battery juice.

Your laptop can slumber in Sleep mode for quite some time, much longer than it would otherwise stay alive when it’s turned on. The amount of time the laptop stays in Sleep mode depends on various power settings in Windows. You can direct Windows to sleep for maybe 30 minutes and then have the laptop automatically turn itself off or switch into Hibernation mode.