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 ...

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 ...

Fast startup is a feature that was first implemented in Windows 8 as Fast Boot. It was carried over to Windows 10, and it remains an option in Windows 11. It's designed to shave seconds off of your PC ...

Hibernation lets you save the current state of a virtual machine to the operating system disk, allowing seamless restoration when needed. However, we’ve observed that in certain setups, especially ...

We’ve reached a point where it can be assumed that most mid-range and higher desktops and higher-end notebooks will ship with solid-state drives as the default option. It’s a good thing, too, since ...

Fix Microsoft Windows' inability to go into and come out of its sleep/hibernate modes, which can be related to the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) Client service. Dennis O'Reilly began writing ...

Windows has carried a lot of legacy features forward over the years, some of which are useful, others not so much. One of the most overlooked culprits eating away at your storage is Hibernation mode, ...

Microsoft has a surprise for users tired of waiting forever while their computers boot up. It will take less than 10 seconds for a Windows 8 PC to go from powered down to the start screen, according ...

The Windows system consists of thousands of files. Many of them have strange names, others have extensions that most users have never seen before. Normally you do not need to worry about these files.