Sleep, hibernate, and shut down all behave differently. Newer PCs support "Modern Standby", a state that's different from traditional sleep. Shutting down your computer may actually be faster than ...

Fast Startup sounds helpful, but it often causes more problems than it solves.

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When someone mentions fast startup, they sometimes mix it up with fast boot, which shares a similar name but does completely different things. Fast startup is a Windows software feature that saves ...

Disabling SysMain is a popular Windows 11 speed tip. I benchmarked boot, app launches and RAM with it on and off. Here's what ...