If your Windows laptop overheats in sleep mode, use the following suggestions to fix this issue. Before proceeding, I suggest you clean your laptop, as this issue may occur due to dust accumulating ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Power down? Sleep? Hybernate? What's the best option for you? (Photo: Getty) Ask your average person this simple question of tech hygiene — should you turn your computer off at night, or leave it on? ...

Fix Microsoft Windows' inability to go into and come out of its sleep/hibernate modes, which can be related to the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) Client service. Dennis O'Reilly began writing ...

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 ...

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 ...