Choose sleep or shut down
Pick between sleep and shut down, and know what each one keeps.
Sleep leaves everything open and uses almost no power. Shut down closes everything, so the next start is fresh.
Sleep is for lunch. Shut down is for a week in a bag, or a machine misbehaving.
Key points
- Sleep pauses the machine and keeps your work open
- Shut down or restart when something is behaving oddly
What to remember
- Sleep keeps the desk as it was. Shut down clears it.
- Sleep keeps everything, the problem included. Shut down clears it.
Try this
Open the power menu on your own computer and read the choices without pressing one.
Practice: Choose sleep or shut down. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.