Leaving your PC on 24/7 only costs around $15 extra per year on a high-end system, and even less for lower-power machines. Productivity gains from leaving your PC on outweigh the potential cost ...

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When we don’t want to shut down our system because we are leaving the system for a short period, the best option is to put your computer to Sleep. However, the Sleep option is missing for some users ...

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 ...

Obviously there isn't a start menu option for shutdown/sleep, but I was wondering if anyone had a fancy command line option for this issue. Something such as "shutdown /r /t 15" but with the obvious ...

Most Windows Vista computers are configured to go into Sleep mode after a certain amount of idle time. Sleep mode is the new low-power state that Vista uses to replace the confusing Standby and ...

Some people have reported problems with their Macs not going to sleep immediately when they set them to do so. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

MacFixIt reader Charles Ridley reports a reproducible bug when one user is logged in and a G5 is put to sleep, then woken up. After the current user log-in window appears and you select switch users, ...