I'm sure you've heard that shutting down your computer too frequently could negatively affect its software and limit its lifespan. Or that leaving your computer on all the time also hurts its battery ...

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 ...

Shutting down your PC at the end of the day has advantages and disadvantages. Here's what every computer owner should know. If you use your computer daily, you likely either put it into sleep mode or ...

Windows 7 Sleep mode stores open data in system memory and places your computer into a power-saving state. If you regularly alternate between computer and hands-on work at your business, your computer ...

After your computer goes into sleep mode, it's supposed to wake up within seconds once you press a key or move your mouse. When your computer won't come out of sleep mode, the problem could be caused ...

When we don’t want to shut down our system because we are leaving the system for a short period, the best option is to put your computer to Sleep. However, the Sleep option is missing for some users ...

A: In most situations, this will cause no harm to the system itself. It wasn't always like that. In the past, it was often recommended you shut down your system when not in use to help defragment your ...

Sleep mode is a handy function that enables your computer to shut down its display after a period of inactivity. It saves your battery and you can resume your work from where you left off by waking up ...

When we put our MacBooks to sleep, we hope that they will wake. Please! And we when we want them to go to sleep, we hope that they will slumber. But it always doesn't work that way. When running under ...

Going hand in hand with my earlier observations about the MacBook’s sleep battery usage, I gave myself quite a scare by leaving my MacBook asleep unplugged for an extended amount of time. I plugged in ...