If you are used to putting your computer to sleep manually, and do that a lot of times every day, then you'd like ExSleep. Otherwise, it is useless to you.
You can put ExSleep on the desktop, and double-click it to sleep the computer.
With filters, it can avoid sleeping the computer if there are running programs that shouldn't be interrupted (it actually is the *only* reason we decided to create such a simple tool).
One big problem with Windows' built-in sleep button is that it always forces the computer to sleep, even when there are tasks that shouldn't be interrupted, e.g., downloading.
It is very much possible that you just forgot those tasks, at the time when you decided to put your computer to sleep.
ExSleep uses to avoid the problem. When you launch ExSleep, it first checks all running programs, and won't sleep the computer if there are programs that match any filter.
ExSleep doesn't have a GUI, so you need to modify the ExSleep.ini directly if you want to use filters. Add one or more filters under the section [filters], one filter per line. A filter can be:
* To use regular expression, keyword must be in front of a filter.
You can surely create a shortcut to ExSleep on your desktop, so that you can easily use it by double-clicking. You can also use command line parameter or to hibernate the system instead of sleeping. Of course, if you want, you can create two shortcuts for both sleep and hibernating.
Please feel free to download and use ExSleep. It is totally free.