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GJB
When in sleep mode (Vista Home Premium), will programs continue to run in the
background ? Specifically internet downloads ? Thanks.
background ? Specifically internet downloads ? Thanks.
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Paul Montgomery
When in sleep mode (Vista Home Premium), will programs continue to run in the
background ? Specifically internet downloads ? Thanks.
Vista doesn't walk in its sleep.
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GJB
What about hibernate mode ?
Paul Montgomery said:Vista doesn't walk in its sleep.
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Paul Montgomery
What about hibernate mode ?
When it goes into its cave to hibernate, it goes into deep sleep.
Hibernate saves an image of your desktop with all open files and
documents, and then it powers down your computer.
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Rick Rogers
Hibernate essentially is powering off, it's just that the contents of system
memory are copied to the hard drive prior to shutdown (the hiberfil.sys
file). There is no system activity once this has happened.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
memory are copied to the hard drive prior to shutdown (the hiberfil.sys
file). There is no system activity once this has happened.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
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GJB
Well, I ran programs in the background with the Hibernate function in XP, and
ran them sucessfully. What do you reccomend slepp or hibernate ? I want to
run programs in the background. Thanks.
ran them sucessfully. What do you reccomend slepp or hibernate ? I want to
run programs in the background. Thanks.
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Rick Rogers
Hi,
Sleep now is a hybrid of the old standby and hibernate. It copies the
contents of memory to disk and goes into a low power state. If you want
programs to continue running, do not use sleep unless the program has the
capacity to bring the system out of sleep in order to run (certain tasks,
such as autoscanning by antivirus programs or defragging are programmed for
this).
In XP you would have used standby, not hibernate, to allow programs to
continue running. In Vista, simply leave the system on with your power
options set to go into low power state after a period of inactivity. This
way when your programs complete, the system will automatically go to sleep
but not until then.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
Sleep now is a hybrid of the old standby and hibernate. It copies the
contents of memory to disk and goes into a low power state. If you want
programs to continue running, do not use sleep unless the program has the
capacity to bring the system out of sleep in order to run (certain tasks,
such as autoscanning by antivirus programs or defragging are programmed for
this).
In XP you would have used standby, not hibernate, to allow programs to
continue running. In Vista, simply leave the system on with your power
options set to go into low power state after a period of inactivity. This
way when your programs complete, the system will automatically go to sleep
but not until then.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com