Hibernation Vs. Sleep

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I can't find my hibernation settings anymore. Also the computer never goes to
sleep or hibernation. I have my laptop set up to go to sleep, then turn off
hard drive, and finally hibernation. This was working then all of a sudden it
stopped working. I have since reinstalled vista R C 2 and it still does not
work. They need to tune up sleep, hibernation and hard drive turn off. Which
is better anyways? Hibernation or sleep?
 
Sleep = Low Power Mode, Quicker to come back on from, but it will eat up
your battery life.

Hibernation = No Power Mode, Saves your settings to hard disk, then actually
powers down everything. Doesn't use any battery power once it's off, takes
a few extra seconds versus sleep to awake from.

Does above help?

-Rob
 
Lang said:
I can't find my hibernation settings anymore. Also the computer never goes to
sleep or hibernation. I have my laptop set up to go to sleep, then turn off
hard drive, and finally hibernation. This was working then all of a sudden it
stopped working. I have since reinstalled vista R C 2 and it still does not
work. They need to tune up sleep, hibernation and hard drive turn off. Which
is better anyways? Hibernation or sleep?
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If you use Disk Cleanup and delete the Hibernation file-
Hibernation will be disabled.

I prefer to put my computers to Sleep/Standby.


-Michael
 
I prefer to put my computers to Sleep/Standby.
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The new sleep mode in Vista is a hybrid between stand by and hibernate.
It'll keep the RAM powered on and make a copy of it to disk, so if you do
pull the plug it can still resume.

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Paul Smith said:
The new sleep mode in Vista is a hybrid between stand by and hibernate. It'll keep the RAM
powered on and make a copy of it to disk, so if you do pull the plug it can still resume.
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Right. Now that you bring that up- does the hybrid sleep
use a/the hibernation file? Does it make a difference if Hibernation
is disabled? If Hibernation has been disabled- does it turn the
hybrid Sleep into regular Sleep mode?


-Michael
 
Right. Now that you bring that up- does the hybrid sleep
use a/the hibernation file? Does it make a difference if Hibernation
is disabled? If Hibernation has been disabled- does it turn the
hybrid Sleep into regular Sleep mode?
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I have hibernation disabled on all my machines, and the hybrid state still
resumes after pulling the plug. I haven't actually tried removing the
hibernate file though to see if the system will just create a new one.


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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Jack said:
Waking up from hibernation usually happens in spring.
Jack
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Haha! You beat me to it!

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