Is this acceptable?

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I recently bought my 1st laptop and the documentation seems to suggest that
unless the laptop will not be used for several days it is preferable to use
the hibernation mode (manual or timed out) rather than a full computer
shutdown for convenience on restart. It sounds great to me. I just wanted
to make sure it works that way in real life. Sound okay to you guys?

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Thanks in advance... Bob

 

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The organic entity known as Bob Newman communicated the following:

> I recently bought my 1st laptop and the documentation seems to suggest
> that unless the laptop will not be used for several days it is
> preferable to use the hibernation mode (manual or timed out) rather
> than a full computer shutdown for convenience on restart. It sounds
> great to me. I just wanted to make sure it works that way in real
> life. Sound okay to you guys?
>

Yep. Saves a lot of time restarting. Even when connecting to another
network it causes no problems. Windows being windows you'd better restart
once in a while, but you can reserve that for when you have some spare
time.

 

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Papa <bikingis@my.fun> wrote:
>
> Of course it's all a matter of preference, and I prefer to set all of
> my power conservation settings to NEVER for both my desktop and my
> laptop. I feel that I can keep the laptop battery at an adequate
> charge without relying on such measures, and it is less intrusive.

None of which makes _any_ sense or has anything to do with the original
question!

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James

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[Dave]

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That's not a good idea *AT ALL*

1) power-source stopped/removed

2) electrical fault with battery, etc, then you've lost your data!

3) original poster go for hibernation, much much much better idea..

"Michael Geary" <Mike@DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote in message
news:10brvsi63fqa98e@corp.supernews.com...
> Even better, if you're talking about less than a few days, use standby
> instead of hibernate. The machine will go into standby faster and come
back
> up from standby faster than it will if you hibernate.
>
> Standby puts everything to sleep and then uses a trickle of battery power
to
> keep the contents of RAM memory refreshed. Hibernate does the same thing
and
> then dumps RAM out to a file on the hard drive and shuts down the power
> completely.
>

 

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Thanks very much guys, I got the answer I was hoping for. Have a good one.

Bob

"Dave" <davedave@mail.com> wrote in message
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> That's not a good idea *AT ALL*
>
> 1) power-source stopped/removed
>
> 2) electrical fault with battery, etc, then you've lost your data!
>
> 3) original poster go for hibernation, much much much better idea..
>
> "Michael Geary" <Mike@DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote in message
> news:10brvsi63fqa98e@corp.supernews.com...
> > Even better, if you're talking about less than a few days, use standby
> > instead of hibernate. The machine will go into standby faster and come
> back
> > up from standby faster than it will if you hibernate.
> >
> > Standby puts everything to sleep and then uses a trickle of battery
power
> to
> > keep the contents of RAM memory refreshed. Hibernate does the same thing
> and
> > then dumps RAM out to a file on the hard drive and shuts down the power
> > completely.
> >
>
>

 

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> Michael Geary wrote:
> > Even better, if you're talking about less than a few days, use
> > standby instead of hibernate. The machine will go into
> > standby faster and come back up from standby faster than it
> > will if you hibernate.
> >
> > Standby puts everything to sleep and then uses a trickle of
> > battery power to keep the contents of RAM memory refreshed.
> > Hibernate does the same thing and then dumps RAM out to a
> > file on the hard drive and shuts down the power completely.

Dave wrote
> That's not a good idea *AT ALL*
>
> 1) power-source stopped/removed
>
> 2) electrical fault with battery, etc, then you've lost your data!
>
> 3) original poster go for hibernation, much much much better idea..

Tell that to the millions of notebook users who use standby every day with
no problems.

Seriously, what are these risks you're talking about?

"power-source stopped/removed?"

Don't take out your battery.

"electrical fault with battery, etc, then you've lost your data!"

When have you heard of a notebook battery suddenly developing an electrical
fault out of the blue?

But let's assume you're right, and my battery falls out of the machine or
just goes dead all of a sudden. What data will I lose? None! Before putting
the machine on standby, I *save any files I have open*. My data is on the
hard drive, not in memory, so it's perfectly safe.

I've used standby every day for six years on a variety of ThinkPads. I've
never had a problem that would have been avoided by hibernating instead.

Once in a very rare while, Windows will refuse to come out of standby for
unknown reasons. But hibernation wouldn't make any difference, because in
order to hibernate, the machine has to go in and out of standby as part of
the process anyway.

If you save your files, standby is just as safe as hibernation, and if you
have a lot of memory in your machine, it's much faster.

If you prefer hibernation, that's fine. But to say that standby is "not a
good idea *AT ALL*" is way off base.

-Mike