Hibernate, Shut Down or Sleep?

T

Titus Pullo

I usually shut down my ThinkPad at the end of each day. Is there any
advantage or disadvantage to using Hibernate? What is the difference between
Hibernate and Sleep? I am running Vista Business 64.
 
B

Ballistic

this is easy to explain.
shut down = turn off any programs running, and turns off your pc

hibernate = keeps your programs running, including your session of windows,
on the hard drive and turns off pc. usefull for if you will not use your pc
in 1 hour or more*, but don't want to lose where you are in your session.

sleep = keep your programs running including your session in windows in
memory(not hard drive, on ram) and put computer in sleep mode, or also known
as power saving mode. usefull for if you will use your pc in 1 hour or
less*, but don't want to lose where you are in your session.

*if you are connected to a power supply, there is no need to hibernate or
sleep unless you want to, it's mainly made for people who are using their
battery

i suggest keep using shut down in your case, some will contradict me, but i
found that having windows freshly booted is more performant than having
windows after you ran some programs and closed them, but everyone has their
way with it, so it's your choice.
 
G

Guest

Ballistic said:
sleep = keep your programs running including your session in windows in
memory, not hard drive
Click to expand...

you wrong!
Unlike Windows XP, which offered the different Standby and Hibernate modes,
Windows Vista combines the benefits of both modes into Sleep to simplify the
entire process for users
 
R

Richard Urban

When you hibernate, or sleep - there are NO programs running. The state that
the programs were in, prior to using either of these two modes, is
remembered and when you bring up the computer the same state is presented to
you. But, the programs were NOT running when you were in sleep or hibernate.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
T

Titus Pullo

Richard Urban said:
When you hibernate, or sleep - there are NO programs running. The state
that the programs were in, prior to using either of these two modes, is
remembered and when you bring up the computer the same state is presented
to you. But, the programs were NOT running when you were in sleep or
hibernate.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
Click to expand...

So what is recommended is to shut down at night but hibernate if I'm not
going to use the computer for a couple of hours?
 
R

Richard Urban

It's your choice of course.

Consider this though. If you send the computer to sleep (everything held in
the RAM), and there is a power failure, all is lost. If you place the
computer in hibernate, everything is written to disk and when you start the
computer everything will be as it was when you went into hibernate.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
B

Ballistic

hydrid isn't that good i tried it, it's your choice of course, but i didn't
like hydrid, you have to wait a little bit, before your pc actually sleeps,
now i know why it's because it's writing the info on the hard drive but i
just didn't care for it.
 
R

Richard Urban

You said programs were running when in sleep mode and that just is not so.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
B

Ballistic

no i meant before sleep or hibernate they were running, but are either sent
to ram or hard drive.

during sleep or during hibernate there's nothing running otherwise it would
be called sleep it be called power saving mode
 

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