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Sep 2017
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What happens when you close the lid on y...

Scott Johnson
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Do you know what your laptop does when you close the lid without powering it down first? Does it shut it off, or put it to Sleep mode, or Hibernate, or maybe it does nothing at all?   It’s interesting to find out what people think about this process. Some people assume that when they […] 
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