Shutdown and Restart are straightforward, but what about Sleep and Hibernate? Windows 7 supports several states for when you're not at your computer, and they're not all the same. Some methods help ...

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 ...

When stepping away from your Windows computer, you don't always need to shut it down. Windows also offers other powerful power-saving options — like Sleep and Hibernate — that allow you to pause your ...

I've been using hibernate (not sleep) on my main desktop for months and it suddenly stopped working. When I attempt to go into hibernation, the screen goes blank for a few seconds and then pops right ...

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, ...