Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11’s long‑running sleep problem is finally being fixed, promising an end to the battery drain that has hit many laptops left in standby. A new power-saving rule in ...

Sleep mode is a handy function that enables your computer to shut down its display after a period of inactivity. It saves your battery and you can resume your work from where you left off by waking up ...

For most people, the nightly choice between shutting down a PC and letting it sleep is really a choice between certainty and convenience. A full shutdown wipes the slate clean, closes network ...

An external hard drive or SDD can be very useful with a Mac that has a low-capacity internal drive. Some Mac laptop users routinely keep an external drive plugged in, and they may have encountered a ...

With so many distractions like gadgets in today's world, getting a good night's sleep is as important as eating healthy foods, and your iPhone can help you achieve just that. With various features ...

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 ...

Typically, there are 2 ways to configure Sleep Mode settings on Xbox One console. First, is the Energy-saving mode, and the other is the Instant-on mode. As the name suggests, the Energy-saving mode ...

For most of us, getting a good night's sleep is a priority, but between using our phones for doom-scrolling and keeping up with our friends on social media, it can be hard to do. All of that nightly ...

For most of us, our smartphones are ever-present companions, constantly sending us notifications to help us stay current on the latest news or our friends' social media updates. All those ...

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 ...