There are many ways to shut down your PC—you can turn the PC off completely, you can make it sleep, or you can hibernate the PC. To shut down, select Start and then select Power > Shut down . Sleep uses very little power, your PC starts up faster, and you’re instantly back to where you left off.

To adjust power and sleep settings in Windows 10, go to Start , and select Settings > System > Power & sleep. Under Screen , select how long you want your device to wait before turning the screen off when you're not using your device.

Describes an issue in which SleepAgentServer causes high CPU use in Configuration Manager on Windows 10. Provides a workaround.

To adjust power and sleep settings in Windows 10, go to Start , and select Settings > System > Power & sleep. Under Screen , select how long you want your device to wait before turning the screen off when you're not using your device.

Use this tool to find and remove specific prevalent threats and reverse the changes that they made (see the "Covered malware families" list in the "Release information" section of KB 890830). For comprehensive malware detection and removal, consider using Windows Defender Offline or Microsoft Safety Scanner.

Most laptops can go to sleep automatically by closing the lid. To set this, select the Start button, and then select Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Choose what closing the lid does. Choose a lower power mode. Select the Battery icon on the right side of the taskbar.

To view the scheduled tasks in a default installation of Windows Vista, click Start . In the Start Search box, type task scheduler. Then, in the Programs list, click Task Scheduler. The following table describes the scheduled tasks in a default installation of Windows Vista.

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files. When critical Windows system files are missing or corrupted, some Windows features may stop working correctly or Windows may stop responding altogether.

This article describes an issue that occurs when you wake up a computer from sleep (state S3) in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, or Windows Server 2012 R2. A hotfix is available to fix this issue. The hotfix has a prerequisite. Symptoms

REM In this example, the script is named RunMRT.cmd. REM The Sleep.exe utility is used to delay the execution of the tool when used as a REM startup script. See the "Known issues" section for details.