Wake timers are scheduled events (usually via the Windows Task Scheduler) that can wake up the PC from sleep/hibernate to run a task. These can include daily maintenance tasks such as disk ...

Put it back to sleep. Reason: drive is needed less than 1 hour every day; no point in incurring the wear, tear and power expenditure by having it spin all the time. Related question: Assuming the ...

This was weird. Last night I left my computer doing something and when nature called and I had to get up I noticed it hadn't entered sleep mode well after the setting in the Power Options. Well, no ...

If you are working on your laptop and have to move away for a while, you should put it to sleep ideally. This way you can pick up your work from where you left it, also, it saves electricity and your ...