While in the middle of your productivity app, you may get an emergency call which requires you to hurry out. So you either shut down your system or leave it on hibernate or sleep. Leaving your PC on ...

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The hibernation power-saving option can be useful when you want to save your laptop's battery or when you want to cut down on your business's energy consumption. However, if your computer hibernates ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: In the last few days, no more than a couple of weeks, this problem has appeared: When I put the computer to ...

If you simply close your laptop lid when you've finished working instead of turning it off – you could be causing a slew of problems. Keeping your machine running at all times can lead to wifi ...

I’m not answering a reader question this time; just passing on some useful information. You can save power by setting up your Windows PC to go into sleep mode (called Standby in XP) after so many ...

Knifeblade asked the Answer Line forum why his PC won’t go into Standby Mode. My answer covers sleep and hibernation, as well. There’s probably an infinite number of conflicts that can interfere with ...

okay so I put my new computer to sleep.<BR><BR>Windows 7, start menu -> power -> sleep.<BR><BR>It initially sat there with no power lights except the steady blinking of the external blue power one (I ...

I'm looking for help on a Toshiba Satellite 1085-S207. I am usually in the Mac Ach I'm not sure under which forum this goes under. Anyhow, the laptop was running XP Home, but the problem was that ...