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I am using the sysinternals tool psshutdown.exe -d to suspend the pc from a command line on my Thinkpad L460. This works just fine on W7, W8, W10 and W11. I recently purchased an E16 G2 that has W11 Pro Preloaded on it. Psshutdown no longer works and quits with the following:
c:>psshutdown.exe -d
PsShutdown v2.6 - Shutdown, logoff and power manage local and remote systems Copyright (C) 1999-2023 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
Error suspending local system: The local system does not support suspend.
I always have hibernate turned off, but if I turn it on, psshutdown -d (suspend) goes into hibernation instead of sleep.
What's the problem here?
I know sleep (suspend) works because selecting Sleep from the power button via Start Menu will suspend the PC, but I need to do this from a batch script.
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll, SetSuspendState Sleep doesn't work either
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Hello! I have absolutely the same problem on my Dell XPS 9360 with Win 10 Pro, and i can't find the solvetion.
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Did you follow the instructions given here? This is a configuration issue with the machine and not an issue with the OS version.
Did you even understand what I said?
I do not have any problems with sleep via the HW or UI power buttons. Sleep no longer works from the command line. This is not an issue on my L460 with the same OS. I don't understand why the same command doesn't run on the E16.
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Hello Click Click,
Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.
It seems that PsShutdown has some compatibility issues with Windows 11 Pro, you can use alternative methods to put your system to sleep from the command line.
1.Using PowerShell: You can use the following PowerShell command to put your computer to sleep:
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
2.Using Command Prompt: You can create a shortcut or run the following command in Command Prompt:
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep
3.Using shutdown Command: Although shutdown is typically used for shutting down or restarting, you can use it to hibernate, which is similar to sleep:
shutdown /h
If you still prefer using PsShutdown, ensure you have the latest version (v2.6) as it includes some fixes. You can download it from the Sysinternals website.
Reference:
PSShutdown - Windows 11 Compatibility #485 - GitHub
PsShutdown - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn
I hope the information above is helpful.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.
Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou
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Thank you for the suggestions, but none of these except hibernate (which I want off) cause the E16 to go to sleep when launched from the command line. It's only an issue with the E16 that I have and not with my other Thinkpad L460. As a test, I installed W10 LTSC 2021 on the E16 and that OS has the same problem, so it doesn't seem W11 related. Also in my post above, you can see that I was running v2.6. I also updated the E16 BIOS, but that had no effect on the problem. As I said, Sleep in itself is not the issue. It just no longer works from the command line on the new laptop.
If anyone reading this has an E16 G2, I would appereciate it if they could test the psshutdown command as decribed above and report back if it works for them. I'm out of ideas at the moment.
It turns out that Lenovo removed the support for S3 (suspend) on the E16 G2 which was replaced by what Ms calls Modern Standby. That's why specifying -d returns an error. After looking at all the options for psshutdown, I see
-x Turn monitor off (system will initiate Modern Standby if supported)
so -x needs to be used with the E16 G2 instead of -d for psshutdown for Sleep to work. I don't have an answeron how to use modern standby for the other command line options.
