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, ...

Windows 11/10 has the Hibernate mode enabled by default. This mode is a power-saving state for computers that run on batteries, e.g. Laptops. Hibernation puts the full current state of your PC to the ...

Many people use the Hibernate option so that they can resume all the work very quickly. However, if the Hibernate option is missing or unavailable in the System Settings window in Control Panel, you ...

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 ...

Is it possible to have Windows execute a sync script between a local and hosted folder when the system goes into and resumes from sleep and hibernate, as well as shutdown? I've come across a possible ...

When I came home last night, I thought my previously healthy Windows 7 machine was dead. It was making a horrendous squeal and refused to reboot multiple times. Turns out it was asleep. I’m not sure ...