Windows 10: Windows Explorer not responding after waking up from sleep/hibernation mode

Hello all.For around 2 weeks now, I have been facing an issue: Windows Explorer on my laptop ASUS ROG G15QE will not respond after waking up from hibernation/sleep mode. I have tried doing sfc /scannow and a few other methods. I have also updated to the latest version of Windows 10. The issue has not fixed itself yet.Symptoms after waking up from hibernation are: 1 Windows button on the taskbar will not respond after clicking or pressing the Windows key2 Applications open on the desktop prior to hibernation/sleep mode will hang and/or show "No Internet Connection" errorsCurrently, my only

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Hibernate mode Vs Sleep Vs Hybrid sleep.

I'm starting to lose track of what we're disagreeing on. I can't say what was on the mind of whoever designed the technique in the past, but today it is a tool available to any supporting platform where the users need it. Hybrid sleep is functionally a suspension to disk without clearing the ram, at its core it is a hibernation. Arguing which method is for which platform is -with all due respect- a waste of time. I would agree to the argument that Hybrid sleep is more versatile than simple hibernation, though, but that doesn't make hibernation a non valid method of suspension on desktops. And if someone intended for long down-times or expected power loss, the differences between hibernation and hybrid sleep become inexistent.

For the frequent blackouts part, we have to consider the scope of the issue here: whoever opts to use any suspension method, hibernation, sleep or hybrid sleep, does so explicitly to avoid shutting down the computer (for whichever reason they wanted). Anecdotal example: I'm off to work in the morning, but I do not want to close all the software and web pages I have open (and they can be many) and restart them later, so I have the choice of either sleep or hibernate (or hybrid methods), but with any S state less than 4, I run the risk of a blackout forcing me to what I avoided shutting down for, so I elect to use hibernation (or hybrid sleep, of which the hibernation part is what's needed).

A UPS is indeed a must have, but alas, not all of us live in the first world!

VRAM isn't wiped post-wake up, per se. The only way to wipe the entire memory is relieving if of power. Hibernation does have that effect in the suspension process (going into hibernation), upon waking up it repopulates the memory with what was occupying it before turning off (though I don't know if it was actually this simple).
What was I referring to in my previous post is Windows' memory manager's functionality. When a process is closed (eg: Alt+F4ed the main window, killed in task manager, etc), all its memory heap is then freed up for other processes to use. So, any memory that is used when a computer wakes is for actually running processes, waking up won't reserve memory for anything else (other than hardware, I guess?)

Computers can be weird. I once had a recurring issue with Microsoft's Security Essential where it starts eating up all my ram after waking up from sleep. And I'm talking about 20GB of physical memory! Still don't know what caused that bug though. Couldn't reproduce it in later Windows installations on the same hardware either.
And don't get me even started on those cheap Chinese hardware!

 

Windows 7 sleep mode shutsdown

Windows can be configured to eventually wake back up and go into hibernation. It's possible that it's not hibernating properly.

I suggest turning off hibernation and seeing where that gets you.
How to disable and re-enable hibernation - Windows Client

 

wake from sleep but not hibernation

Windows calls hibernation a low power state not an off state.
Log - System
Source - Power-Troubleshooter
EventID - 1
{You need to look at the Details tab to see the difference between records of resuming from sleep & hibernation - only resume from hibernation has non-zero values for the Hiber* entries.}

MS says that hibernation is not off and that it consumes power. Shut down, sleep, or hibernate your PC - MSSupport

I have been responding to this particular topic because post #29 doubted that the computer could respond to TS tasks during hibernation. It can respond to them.

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Peter,

Have you managed to make any progress with your lack of wake timers on battery?
- My non-S0 Modern standby computers have had AC & DC wake timers enabled by default.
- My only S0 Modern standby computer does not have them listed in Power options. I have not tried to change that.

Denis