Hibernate, sleep or shut down?

[GlaceonX]

I rarely shut down.... Maybe each 3 days? (Desktop)

Both my laptops get shut down, why? I have no surface where they can be safe.... Anyways, the fan being on cooling down the CPU while the lappy is on hibernate just gathers more dust, which just means I'd have to open it sooner to clean it up....

 

[Masters Cage]

My computer, I shut down....
My school laptop, I put on hibernate....

 

[magikarpower]

Back when I had a desktop, I left it on all the time other than rebooting when a new installation occurred, updates, whathaveyou. I also rebooted once every month if i didn't do so already or if I needed to Defrag or do a virus scan because I would boot into Safe Mode. With my netbook, it will stay on all night because I torrent on a schedule but during school I put it in sleep so I can get it started quickly in my Microsoft Engineering Class.

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that feature was absent from XP, as well. It seems to be a development that has occurred since 2005.

well i remembe i usede to use sleep in XP. i think it was in SP3 only which a lot of people didn't get if they turned off automatic updates

 

[donavannj]

well i remembe i usede to use sleep in XP. i think it was in SP3 only which a lot of people didn't get if they turned off automatic updates

I know that XP has a sleep mode. What I was talking about was that it doesn't save your session to the hard drive, and it only writes it to the RAM, which means that if the computer loses power, your session will be lost. Vista and 7 solve this problem by saving your session to the hard drive as well as keeping it loaded into the RAM when you tell your computer to sleep.

 

[Morkula]

I put my laptop into Hibernate, since it has a tendency to wake up from Sleep mode on its own sometimes. Coming out of Hibernate takes a lot less time than booting up, and if I'm in the middle of something I can just leave it open and it'll be there waiting for me when I bring my laptop out of hibernation.

 

[Hikamaru]

Hibernate cos I won't lose any work I am doing.

 

[Legendary Silke]

I always fully shut down when I get the chance to do so. When I'm out and about with my laptop, however, hybrid sleep is the best.

(What's hybrid sleep? That's what happens when you combine sleep and hibernate. It does what sleep does... keeping stuff in memory in a low-power state... while storing everything to the hard disk at the same time. That way, it's both fast and safe!)

 

[Akarui]

I'm usually the one to use shut down after I have finished my time on my laptop. But if I want to return to my computer after running off I'll lock (password protect) my computer and leave it open.

 

[Guy]

My battery basically feeds off of my charger now, so I always have to have my laptop plugged in if I'm going to use it. Because of that, normally what I do is when I know I'm not going to be using my computer for awhile or I'm going to bed, then I'll shut it down. If I'm just taking my laptop downstairs or I'm going to use it after a moderate time being away, then I'll put it in hibernate so I get a quick start up.

I hardly ever put my laptop in Sleep mode manually. If it goes to sleep mode, then it'll do it on its own if I left it on for too long.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

I just close my netbook, I dont know what its called but its password protected so a lot of people have to guess


:t354:TG

 

[.Alvin]

Always shut down my computer. my dad complains about the noises my computer makes at night, and how much electricity it wastes if I leave it on and don't use it.

 

[fire_man]

I put it into sleep mode unless I am going to bed or something, then I shut down.

There is very few cases when Hibernate would be necessary. Only when you had no source of power for a long time and needed everything saved (though sleep can last for several days).

 

[Guest123_x1]

it depends

Whenever I have a crapload of programs open, I use Hibernate (unless I find out I have updates waiting to be installed, then I close everything and select "Install Updates and Shut Down"). I may just shut down whenever I have only one or two programs open.
I use Sleep/Standby whenever I leave the house for a short period of time (usually to go for walks).

 

[bobandbill]

I usually hibernate - only at times do I put my computer to sleep. I'll restart it/shut down every so often too.

 

[docjones2]

I just shutdown, hibernate and sleep just seems unnecesary to me.

 

[Melody]

I prefer hibernation usually...saving a reboot for issues/updates and whatnot. To me shutting down wastes more time than hibernating does, because it takes longer to boot back to a useable state.

 

[Ziraider]

I hardly do any of the sort, with a $300 dollar surge protector with a 4hr battery life I leave my PC 24/7 unless I do updates and or cleaning out the tower with air in a can, and replacing hardware.

 

[LightOfTruth]

Hibernation is shut down and saves your stuff so PC comes on when you boot up, Only use restart when the laptop needs updating :D

 

[Anders]

I turn my computer off when I'm not using it. :l

 

[twocows]

Sleep about 99% of the time. I shut down when it might be going under rough conditions or for extended outages without power.