What is the hotkey to put my Windows to sleep?

Question

My keyboard doesn't have power-related keys. I would like to enter the hybrid sleep with using the keyboard only with a minimum keystrokes.

If there is none, how to bind a hotkey to it?

Answer 1

Windows doesn't have a standard hotkey or keyboard shortcut for going to sleep - except the "sleep" button that you see on some keyboards.

Instead, you can use a program to trigger the sleep state, and you can assign a shortcut to launch this program:

1. Download Steve's Wizmo tool.
2. Create a shortcut to this program on your desktop.
3. Right-click the shortcut, and select Properties.
4. In the field Target, add the word standby. *)
5. Click in the field Shortcut key, then press the key combination you want to use. This is then displayed in the field. Note: Not all shortcuts work, e.g. Win+S gets translated to Ctrl-Alt-S instead.
6. Click OK and try out the shortcut!

*) See the Wizmo webpage for complete documentation. Wizmo can do lots more!

Answer 2

In English Windows Windows + -> + -> + s will put the computer to sleep.

If sleep is configured to be hybrid, then it will be a hybrid sleep.

Answer 3

You can use the free utility NirCmd as follows:

"C:\Program Files\Nircmd\nircmd.exe" hibernate

The rest you can find in torbengb's answer.