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 ...

Are you tired of putting your PC to sleep only to find you've run out of battery when you come back? Hibernating your Windows PC can be a great alternative in these situations, despite what 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 ...

Wake timers are scheduled events (usually via the Windows Task Scheduler) that can wake up the PC from sleep/hibernate to run ...

I don't think I've ever had a PC that went into hibernate properly. This one has never done hibernate properly since day one. I think that at one point it went into standby successfully, but it can't ...