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Sleep or Hibernate: Start Your PC Faster

If you always shut down your PC when you’ve finished with it, you have a tedious wait for it to start up again next time. Worse, you have the chore of starting the programs and opening the files you want to use, even if they’re the ones you were using last time. As I’ll explain in this article, with Sleep or Hibernate you can be back to where you were in just a few seconds.
I’ll also show you how to choose what happens when you close your notebook’s lid or press your PC’s on/off switch, and how to choose whether your PC should go to sleep automatically after a period of inactivity.

Category: Issues, Optimisation
Issue: 2019 Issue 12 December
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10
Article Reference: S360