Laptop Power Down

[Ethan]

I have several Windows XP laptops in a lab set up on a
wireless network. Everytime they go into hibernate mode
the wireless NIC is disabled. I would like to disable
the hibernate mode, but I have been told that with
previous versions of Windows, if the laptops go from
standby to shutdown instead of hibernate, any open files
will not be saved or closed correctly, leading to data
loss and hard drive corruption. Does Windows XP handle
this better, or is this still a problem?

 

[Jonathan E. \(NZ\)]

Hi there,

Do you want the laptops to remain in Standby when they are inactive or do
you want them ultimately to power right down?

If you want them to powerdown then yes you will lose anything that is
running on there - unless you power down into Hibernation. That is normal.
Hibernation simply saves the windows state (everything in memory etc) to a
large file and then it takes note that it shut down this way. Then when it
restarts it takes note that it was in hiberation and rather than loading a
fresh windows state it loads the one it saved to your hard drive.
Standby is simply a low energy state where the computer is still running but
much of it is "turned off" (ie hard drive, fans, etc)...
Whe

If you simply want them to remain in standby then just set them NOT to
shutdown and not to go into hibernate (this is set in the POWER OPTIONS in
the CONTROL PANEL) .

J

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the feedback. I was afraid that was the
answer. I was hoping there was a way to shut them down
without losing data or using hibernate mode. When they
go into hibernate, we have to bring them out of
hibernate, shut them down, and reboot to get the wireless
NIC to re-enable. It's not a big deal, but it's kind of
a pain with 30 some laptops and 100 different users.

Ethan