I don't think you read the question...
Manually put a program to sleep WITHOUT making PC sleep?
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Is there any way to manually put a traditional program, not modern Store app, to sleep without putting Windows PC to sleep?
and be able to open the sleeping program and find it in the same state as before sleep.
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Anonymous
2021-01-11T13:39:29+00:00 -
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Pallav Chakraborty 1,360 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-01-12T07:11:39+00:00 Yes I did and I answered it the best way I could. Apologies if it wasn't clear to you, but AFAIK, you cannot put a Windows program to sleep.
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Pallav Chakraborty 1,360 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-01-11T12:24:27+00:00 Normally Windows will put a program to sleep if it's minimized and remains un-opened and unused for a long time. You don't have to do anything. And if you put Windows to sleep, it will automatically put all the programs running to sleep along with it.