Windows command line "suspend"

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On Windows, there's the shutdown cmd line, but is there a windows command line command to call a "standby"?

What I'd really like is to call something like standby -force to force a system to enter standby even when a pesky app is trying to prevent it.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '10 at 15:19

PSshutdown, part of the free PSTools suite from the Sysinternals team at Microsoft, can do this. Shutdown.exe on my XP machine will not - you have not told us what version of Windows you're asking about, and I don't know if shutdown.exe has that option on Vista or different Server versions.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 08 '18 at 23:15

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rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

The action will differ depending on whether or not you have Hibernation enabled.

Documentation on SetSuspendState:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/powrprof/nf-powrprof-setsuspendstate

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answered Apr 22 '10 at 16:13

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '10 at 15:48

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In Windows Vista and 7 you can use the /h switch of the shutdown command to hibernate the computer and /f to force the command: shutdown /h /f.

answered Apr 22 '10 at 15:48

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Windows command line "suspend"

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