How Many of You Use Standby/Hibernation?

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I've never used either. I'm just wondering how well it works with XP Pro SP2
and if there's a benefit in terms of saving my electric $$. My 2 PCs
(core2duo 2.13GHz and P4 2.8GHz) are on about 12 hours a day.
 
I'm in and out of standby at least a dozen times a day with Home Edition. No
particular issues. Don't use hibernation at all.
Dudley Henriques
 
Dudley Henriques said:
I'm in and out of standby at least a dozen times a day with Home Edition.
Dudley Henriques
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Thanks. Does standby kick in when the PC is downloading large files?
 
I use manual hibernation on my laptops when I know that I will be logging
back into the same network on the next restart otherwise I choose a power
off shutdown. Makes for a quicker restart when I fire it up again. It can be
a pain however when using wireless networking with a laptop and hibernate on
one network and try to restart on another network. Fails to connect and
normally have to restart the system again. I don't have them set for
automatic hibernation or standby because I use all for video presentations
and it really is a pain when a computer goes to sleep because I talked too
long.

All my desktops are not using it, I just power down the hard drives and
monitor using the XP power settings (which almost all are set for 1 hour of
non-use.)
 
Fidelis K said:
I've never used either. I'm just wondering how well it works with XP Pro SP2
and if there's a benefit in terms of saving my electric $$. My 2 PCs
(core2duo 2.13GHz and P4 2.8GHz) are on about 12 hours a day.
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I have a Sony Vaio laptop with XP home and i hibernate it every night and
every morning a scheduled task wakes the computer at 7:00. It has never
failed.
 
ManyBeers said:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop with XP home and i hibernate it every night and
every morning a scheduled task wakes the computer at 7:00. It has never
failed.
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I assume you mean the laptop's BIOS is scheduled to wake the computer at
7. If you have a task scheduled in XP and it's waking the computer then
your laptop isn't really hibernating.

Greg
 
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