For most people, the nightly choice between shutting down a PC and letting it sleep is really a choice between certainty and convenience. A full shutdown wipes the slate clean, closes network ...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11’s long‑running sleep problem is finally being fixed, promising an end to the battery drain that has hit many laptops left in standby. A new power-saving rule in ...

If your Windows laptop overheats while in sleep mode, use the following steps to fix the issue. Before proceeding, I suggest you clean your laptop, as this issue may be caused by dust accumulating ...

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Are you having trouble waking up your computer in Sleep Mode? In this troubleshooting guide, we’ll show you all the known solutions for this problem. What is Sleep Mode in Windows? The Windows ...

At the end of every day do you still dutifully close every file and program window before shutting down your PC? That’s the standard way to handle things, but for quite a few versions of Windows, ...

I just purchased a new HP tower for a client. The client is a gardening group (not all that computer savvy, most of them), used to XP, carefully trained in shutting down the computer. The computer is ...

Most Windows Vista computers are configured to go into Sleep mode after a certain amount of idle time. Sleep mode is the new low-power state that Vista uses to replace the confusing Standby and ...

Windows 11 24H2 has fixed the Modern Standby battery drain bug that caused laptops to wake unexpectedly and overheat in sleep mode, now limiting wake sources automatically.