Before we move on, it is important to understand what is the difference between putting the PC to Sleep/Hibernate mode. That is so that you can understand where you should, or should not enable it.

Additionally, if you dual-boot Windows and Linux, hibernation can lock the Windows partition in a suspended state. This prevents Linux from safely mounting NTFS drives, sometimes even leading to data ...

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 ...

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, ...

So I built a new Ryzen 5000 based system and installed Window 10 on it (tip: If all you have are Mac's do yourself a favor and find a machine running Windows or Linux to download and make the ...

You will need admin permission and enough knowledge to change settings in the BIOS. Windows stores the state of the computer or hibernation into a file with the name hiberfil.sys. It would be best to ...

My OS and data drives are SATA. I also have a SCSI drive installed that I don't use except for periodically writing ghost backups. My power options specify to spin down hard drives at 3 minutes. This ...