If you find yourself returning to a fully-drained Windows 11 PC after putting it into sleep mode, consider switching to ...

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 ...

Hibernate mode stores the current state of your computer and then shuts the machine completely down. When you power the device back on after putting it in hibernation, it will boot up in the same ...

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 ...

If your laptop is going to stay connected while asleep, that will drain your battery. Although unless there are active data ...

Hibernation is a feature of Windows that doesn't power off your office computer but instead puts the computer in a suspended mode after saving any open documents and settings for retrieval later. You ...

Fix Microsoft Windows' inability to go into and come out of its sleep/hibernate modes, which can be related to the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) Client service. Dennis O'Reilly began writing ...

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: If you routinely use Hibernation mode, this trick isn't for you. If you never use Hibernate mode on your desktop or laptop, this trick will free up 4-6GB of disk space on your system disk.

Last month I explained how to shut down Windows 8, an option you wouldn’t expect to require step-by-step instruction. And yet. Why on earth would Microsoft remove this option? I have no idea. It ...