When you enable Wake-On-LAN through a setting in the computer's BIOS, the computer goes to sleep instead of completely powering off. While it's sleeping, it listens to the Ethernet port for a magic ...

Hibernation is a feature of Windows that doesn't power off your office computer but instead puts the computer in a suspended mode after saving any open documents and settings for retrieval later. You ...

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 ...

March 29, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Wake-on-LAN isn't a new technology, but with the increasing number of smartphones making their way to the market, ...

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 ...

This is probably a pretty basic question. I'm using Windows 7. I want to run a nightly file backup with Spider Oak (or maybe weekly). Usually my computer is asleep when the backup would kick off and ...