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 ...

You can set your computer's hibernation time in Windows 11's Control Panel under Power Options. Before you can do that, you might need to enable the hibernate mode ...

This has been bugging me- as the title states, I have the puter set to sleep after an hour of inactivity.<BR><BR>This works some of the time and not others, and invariably when it doesn't, the setting ...

On Windows devices, the unanticipated waking of a PC from sleep mode is quite common. Sometimes, when you leave your workstation, you put your PC to sleep, but you still would want to keep the ...

Windows 10 PowerToys: How to keep your PC awake without changing settings Your email has been sent Under normal operating conditions, a Microsoft Windows 10 PC that does not receive any input for a ...

Sometimes my computer just doesn't want to stay asleep. I can hit the sleep button, see the screen go black, hear the fans stop spinning, and still be woken up by blinding lights in the middle of the ...

Putting your PC to sleep is a great way to save energy while still making sure you can resume work quickly. But what can you ...

If you find that your Windows 11 PC keeps entering sleep mode too quickly and disrupts your workflow, you may want to disable the sleep feature. Disabling sleep mode in Windows 11 is a simple process, ...

Some people have reported problems with their Macs not going to sleep immediately when they set them to do so. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...