Of course, there are some pros and cons of sleep vs. Now, when I close my laptop lid and walk away, all the lights go out on my USB devices. Check out Brian’s article: How to Enable Hibernate Mode in Windows 10 “There is no hibernate mode in Windows 10!” In the end, what did the trick was changing my laptop’s behavior, so I go into hibernate mode rather than sleep mode when I close the lid. I saw some suggestions in forums and Q&A sites about fiddling with BIOS settings, but I wasn’t about to do that (I also heard it doesn’t work). In Device Manager, if you go into the properties of a USB device, there’s a Power Management tab with an option that says, “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.” It seems promising, but again, changing this setting didn’t help my cause. Unfortunately, enabling or disabling this feature did not affect me. This option lets your computer put USB ports into a low power state during sleep rather than turning them off completely. In the Advanced Power Options menu, there’s an option that lets you enable or disable USB selective suspend. Several Windows 10 settings seem to relate to how USB ports are powered and when they all ended up being dead ends for me. How to Power Off USB Ports when Laptop is in Hibernateįirst, let me go over a few things that did not work for me. Not a perfect solution, but it works for me. Long story short, what fixed my problem with the USB devices staying powered was setting up my laptop to hibernate instead of sleep. Keeping USB ports powered while a computer is in sleep mode is the intended Windows 10 behavior. Short of shutting down my computer entirely each time I leave the room or unplugging the USB devices, I hadn’t been able to find a fix for this.
If this laptop were somewhere other than my basement-say in the family room or a dorm room-I can see how a tabletop full of dumb flashing USB devices could be even more annoying. But it gives me the anxiety to see that USB audio interface with its flashing light, indicating that it’s powered-on but can’t connect to my computer.
The amount of electricity it’s using is probably minimal.
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