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 ...

You will need admin permission and enough knowledge to change settings in the BIOS. Windows stores the state of the computer or hibernation into a file with the name hiberfil.sys. It would be best to ...

When I came home last night, I thought my previously healthy Windows 7 machine was dead. It was making a horrendous squeal and refused to reboot multiple times. Turns out it was asleep. I’m not sure ...

I'm assuming you've done the requisite googling so i didn't bother. I had a look at what events i could find in .net, since i had the help open, and services are notified of all power event changes.

Windows 7 Sleep mode stores open data in system memory and places your computer into a power-saving state. If you regularly alternate between computer and hands-on work at your business, your computer ...

Most of the time I want to hibernate my laptop, but occasionally I just want to close the lid and have it sleep. Anyone know a the way to do this in Leopard? Preferably not just put it into hibernate ...

Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft watcher extraordinaire, looks around what's being said, and whispered, about the next version of Windows after 7 and finds a few job listings, resume lines, and discussions ...