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You should disable Windows Hibernation

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 ...
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, ...
Putting a laptop to sleep sounds like an easy way to pause work and come back later, but you shouldn't trust Windows to save ...
If your Windows Laptop Battery drains in Sleep Mode then this post can help you. Some users have complained about this problem that when they put their laptop in sleep mode for about 6-7 hours or more ...
Are you having trouble waking up your computer in Sleep Mode? In this troubleshooting guide, we’ll show you all the known solutions for this problem. What is Sleep Mode in Windows? The Windows ...
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 ...
Imagine my horror the other day when I saw an otherwise sharp friend of mine shut down his laptop by holding down the power button until the system turned off. Why is that a really bad idea? I’ll ...
I just purchased a new HP tower for a client. The client is a gardening group (not all that computer savvy, most of them), used to XP, carefully trained in shutting down the computer. The computer is ...