Modern Standby
Modern Standby known formerly as Connected Standby or InstantGo, is a Microsoft specification for Windows 8 hardware and software that aims to bring smartphone-type power management capabilities to the PC platform, as well as increasing physical security.
Description
The specification describes a Microsoft proprietary standard for Windows 8 software and hardware that developers and hardware vendors can optionally comply with to enable devices to be turned on and off instantly. It also allows the operating system to continue performing background tasks, such as updating content from apps, when a device is not being used. Devices must be able to turn on in less than 500 milliseconds. The hardware requirements extend to battery life, in that systems must not drain more than 5% of battery capacity while idle over a 16-hour period.It requires the following:
- A firmware flag indicating support for the standard
- The boot volume must not use a hard disk drive
- Support for NDIS 6.30 by all network devices
- Passive cooling on standby
- Trusted Platform Module 2.0
- CPU, chipset and BIOS support for S0ix "Low Power S0 Idle" power state
- All peripheral devices and drivers must support D3cold
Compliant platforms also enables full BitLocker Device encryption. A background service that encrypts the whole system which can be found in 'Windows Security'>'Device Encryption' page in Windows 10 and 11.