Laptops and "sleep" mode

[Guest]

Just bought my daughter a new laptop for college that has Vista. Question on
the "shut down" procedures; it appears the default "on/off" button in the
bottom left corner puts the computer in a "sleep" mode; question:

Is it safe for the laptop to be carried about, moved around when it's in
this "sleep" mode or should a regular "shutdown" be done?

Thanks for your help...

Hana

 

[jonathan perreault]

it depends how long cuz don't forget sleep means that it continues to take
power from the battery,, if you want to go back to work fast then sleep is
the way to go, if you don't have alot of time in between, if you want to go
a day inbetween, then i suggest shut down or hibernate

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[Diane B]

Just bought my daughter a new laptop for college that has Vista. Question on
the "shut down" procedures; it appears the default "on/off" button in the
bottom left corner puts the computer in a "sleep" mode; question:

Is it safe for the laptop to be carried about, moved around when it's in
this "sleep" mode or should a regular "shutdown" be done?

Thanks for your help...

Hana

Best thing for traveling is to do the Start - Shut Down. Then you know
you won't be wearing out the battery or possibly damaging the hard drive.

 

[JCS]

I would suggest enabling the Hibernate feature, and using it rather than
Sleep. The advantage is that it will take a very short time (relative to
fully re-starting, usually around 30 sec.) to get back to your usable
desktop, plus it doesn't drain the battery, as the computer will effectively
shut down as if you had turned it off. I think that you can set that little
button to hibernate rather than sleep, as well as hibernating when closing
the lid. One thing to remember, if you do use the hibernate feature, make
sure that when Disk Cleanup is run, the box next to the Hibernate file is
UN-checked, otherwise your hibernate feature will become disabled and you'll
have to re-enable it at the command prompt.