Question:
Hibernate or Shutdown
I found the Windows "awakening" from hibernation is several times faster than Windows opening up from a complete shutdown. Problem is that i dont know if it is good for the windows laptop to hibernate for a prolonged period of time (say about 24 hours).
Do you guys hibernate your windows laptop or do you shut it down completely?
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I rarely shut down...hibernation is almost exactly the same thing. I'll reboot every now and then just to clear the system out, but I'd guess that I only reboot maybe three times a month.
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There is no problem hibernating indefinitely. When you hibernate, windows essentially copies the complete contents of RAM into a disk file so that when you resume it need merely bulk load the state back into memory. No power is necessary to maintain the hibernation.
The only down-sides to hibernation are that it's a little sensitive; if you change something in your hardware configuration while hibernated it tends to cause problems on resume, and certain software configurations tend to interfere with hibernation (some mini-drivers prevent hibernation, and some drivers cause resume problems.)
I always hibernate, sometimes for days at a time.
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Oh so to answer your question,
I no longer use hibernate cause I got bit by it. I use standby about 80% of the time and do a full shutdown the other 20%
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I would never use hibernate, it may work ok many times, but the one time it does not it will ruin your entire XP install. This is an area where computer hardware makers always find there are porblems with their products. It is really a very complicated process and very easy for firmware,harddrive, BIOS or OS to screwup and when they do it will be a mess. If you want to boot faster then use standby as it is much faster than hibernate, but does use a little bit of power. On my thinkpad it will use about 1/2% of my battery power per hour of standby, not much at all. Also if you have a large amount of memory, hibernation can take just as long as a boot from shutdown; this is because if say you have 1 GB of memory and you power on from hibernate, then drive has to write the full 1 GB from the hard drive to memory before your up and running. Some people swear by using hibernate...that is until the one time it does not work and trashes their OS load.
Jack
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I've never had a problem, but as Jack sais, if it goes wrong, it can really go wrong. I suppose I just don't think the odds are very high, so I roll the dice baby! Though now that I think of it...with the second battery I just added, maybe standby makes more sense. I love talking myself out of an argument...
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Hi Brian,
I had thought problems with hibernation were a thing of the past so I used it with my thinkpad R40 when I 1st bought it. It worked fine for the 1st month or so, then one time when coming out of hibernation it asked for my password and the password was not accepted...I checked and instead of trying to log in to my account it had changed to the administrator account for some reason. I tried to change to my user account and it would not do it, so I loggged onto the admin account and looked around...What had happened was that my user account was no longer there??? The directories and files were there, but the account no longer existed. What had happened was that something got corrupted bad enough that XP no longer recognised the account any longer. That was the last time I used hibernation; now it's only standby as coming out of standby only takes a second or so at most.
Jack
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I hibernate all the time. It shuts down quicker than 'storing your settings' and reloads a lot quicker too. If I feel like rebooting i just press 'F8' while the image is reloading and I have the option of deleting the hiberfil and cold booting.
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Is it necessary to shut down or close programs before "hibernating"? I get some major issues when leaving a program running from a "Virtual CD ROM". No issues from keeping MS Word on while hibernating.
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Hmm . . . Interesting topic. I use standby the majority of the time. I am a bit leary about putting my rig on hibernate due to some of the same reasons, which bootleg2go has mentioned.
I am curious what others think about this issue.
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