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 ...

Windows 11 separates screen timeout (when the display dims) from full sleep mode. Adjusting these gives you precise control ...

On Windows devices, the unanticipated waking of a PC from sleep mode is quite common. Sometimes, when you leave your workstation, you put your PC to sleep, but you still would want to keep the ...

Learn how to disable Windows 11 hibernate after sleep with our step-by-step guide. Fix annoying power issues, extend battery ...

I checked with a administrator cmd prompt just now and typed in "powercfg -requests" to see what might have kept it awake for 6 hours instead of the 1 in the settings, and got a "none" result for all ...