Turning a computer off or putting it to sleep may be a matter of personal preference or habit. It's faster to close a laptop's lid or have a desktop enter sleep than shutting down either type of PC.

When stepping away from your Windows computer, you don't always need to shut it down. Windows also offers other powerful power-saving options — like Sleep and Hibernate — that allow you to pause your ...

You often don't need to turn off your PC every day. However, my personal recommendation is to "Shut down at the end of the ...

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 ...