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 ...

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 ...

QUESTION: I'm running a desktop PC with Windows 7, which I upgraded from Vista. When I put the computer in sleep mode, or when it goes there after long idle periods, the hard drive shuts down and the ...

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 ...

Deciding whether to shut down or sleep a computer has been a long-debated question in the annals of PC history. Some users argue that restarting the computer too often can damage the components and ...