Power states in Windows

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Published on 2009-12-10T21:38:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 0:03 UTC
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Does anybody know or have a link to documentation on how the Power Manager of Windows, determines to go to the ACPI power states S1-S4? Are there any settings that can be configured? I know that by default states S1-S3 are disabled in Vista and later (they can be enabled by a group policy). Can Windows cycle through these states while for instance an application is actively running?

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