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 ...

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 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 ...

A There's some debate about whether it's a good idea to save time and electricity by using the "hibernate mode." Let me explain. Most Windows users are familiar with the idea of an idle computer ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...