Should you prioritize energy savings by turning off your PC every night, or is it better to leave it running? We weigh the options.

You can easily shave a few bucks off your monthly electric bill by putting your computer to sleep.

That PC on your desk could be a major energy hog. It's not so much the electricity it takes to use it, but the fact that it might be wasting energy while you're not using it.

Frequently using sleep might be doing more harm than good, and that's why I never put my PC to sleep.

You may put your computer into sleep mode every night, to save yourself the trouble of booting up every day. But did you know you can also tell your computer to automatically come out of sleep ...

2. When you put your PC to sleep at night instead of turning it off, you save at least 25 minutes per month (in startup and shutdown time, I’m guessing), while spending only an extra five cents ...

will put the computer to sleep. Can throw that in a shortcut and run it when you want to end your RDP session.

You’re just about to don your coat and head out into the evening—but your computer’s still on. Should you turn it off, or leave it in “sleep” mode?

Let’s say you want to put your computer monitor(s) to sleep without putting the entire computer to sleep, for example, if you’re downloading something overnight or otherwise need the computer ...