Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over six years. He has reviewed smartphones for Pocketnow and Android Authority and loves building stuff on his YouTube channel, MOD. He has a dangerous ...

In this article we will show you how to create a desktop shortcut to activate the standby mode of Windows 7. To add a desktop shortcut to put your computer to sleep on Windows 7: ...

To set the sleep timer on Windows 10, you'll need to open the "Power & Sleep" menu. The sleep timer in Windows 10 controls how long your PC needs to sit idle before it'll go into its power-saving ...

Now using Vista, Aung Kyaw Moe misses XP’s keyboard shortcuts for shutting down, rebooting, and hibernating a computer. Before I answer the question, let me satisfy any XP users who are wondering ...

When Cortana made its debut on Windows 10 PCs, it generated much enthusiasm among Windows loyalists. It was touted as more than a simple search feature. The digital voice assistant helped make things ...

Back in the day, I used to care for a couple of labs full of Macs. Invariably, I’d find myself in the lab at the end of the day, shutting them all down for the night. I’d run up and down the rows of ...

Here’s how you can quickly shut down or put your Windows 8 computer to sleep. 1. To force a shut down or sleep: Ctrl-Alt-Delete then press the power button in the bottom right corner. 2. Or you can ...

When I place my new Compaq Windows 7 PC into Sleep mode, does the hard drive stop or continue spinning? Is there any long-term harm in putting a PC into Hibernate mode? Richard.Longridge, by email ...