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  1. Is Leaving Your Windows 10 PC On All the Time a Good Idea?

    Introduction Have you ever wondered what happens if you leave your Windows PC running continuously for an extended period? Is it a good idea, or are there unintended consequences? Recently, an experiment was conducted by a user at How-To Geek to explore the effects of not shutting down a Windows...
  2. Windows XP Going Green: Power Management Policies on Legacy Devices and Networks

    The following is an instruction on how to have some semblance of a Power Management group policy in an environment operating under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the Power Management options in XP, as opposed to Vista, are stored in binary files, thereby making it difficult...