You won't save any power, well very little anyway. Hibernate turns your pc
off. To hibernate the system copies your current status, at the time of
hibernation, to the hard drive, so when you come out of hibernation you
continue from where you left off. On hibernation the pc shutsdown just as if
you have pressed the off button or selected shutdown.
Power, of course, 'is' consumed if you use Standby instead of hibernate.
With standby all data is passed to the memory and the pc powers most of the
hardware down. in this situation, if you 'pulled the plug' you would
certainly loose data. This only applies to Standby mode. With hibernation
you have no problem.
I regularly hibernate my machine. I don't remove the power plug from the
wall socket because there is no need, well unless there is a thunderstorm
then i remove the powwer plug fromt he wall socket and the modem from the
phone wall socket - just as a precaution.
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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
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