Power Plan is an important part of your computer, especially if it’s a laptop running on battery. It makes sure you don’t end up consuming a lot of electricity or draining your battery. They are also ...

This post will show you how to change the Processor Power State when on battery to make the battery last longer, using the PowerCFG tool in Windows 11/10. The process power state is a feature under ...

You’d think the Command Prompt would be long-gone after 30 years of Windows’ graphical interface, but it’s not, and there’s a good reason why. Though many of its duties have been replaced by icons or ...

Greg Shultz explains how to use the PowerCfg command to investigate Windows sleep states and the devices that support them. Soon after the publication of my last article, “Tweaking power options in ...

In the beginning, all we had was the command line. Then as Windows matured, the need to access that throwback interface waned. That doesn’t mean the Command Prompt is completely useless. In fact, ...

Sleep mode, or stand by as it's sometimes known, is a great idea - in theory. Put simply, it refers to a low-power state in which PCs can turn off non-essential components and help save power when a ...