Sleeping/Hibernating

How do you guys tend to put your laptop to sleep? Do you choose sleeping over hibernating?

Also, does the button to the left of the "Lock this computer." button in the lower right hand corner of the start menu hibernate your laptop?

 

in windows xp i put it to "shut down" since it is not really stable after i wake them up after i put it out from sleep. well, at least not as stable or fast after i just restarted it.

but if you really have to choose i choose for sleep if i was away for just a few hour. hibernating tend to clog up your harddrive.

lock this computer? u mean log off? lock this computer or log off function only will lock your computer, if you click it you will see the welcome screen. it will ask password so that you can log back in.

 

I was referring to the button to the left of the lock button on Windows Vista.

 

in windows vista just put it to sleep/standby. no need to hibernate. in fact avoid them, is there a hibernate in vista?

 

Not sure what you're doing wrong but I don't have any performance issues with hibernation apart from one large program that I have to close before hibernating (big memory hog). No stability problems either when I resume.

The only major problem with hibernation in XP is requiring a significant amount of contiguous memory, causing hibernation to sometimes abort if you have lots of programs open. This can be bad if you click hibernate, close the lid and put the laptop in a bag without watching it shut down first. If the hibernation aborts, the laptop will still be on! So always confirm the laptop has powered off via hibernation before placing it in a bag/sleeve.

I find 90% of the time, hibernation succeeds. If it doesn't, you can then use the shutdown option.

 

i would like to know which one takes less battery to stop/restart, loading laptop from 0 takes about 2% battery, sleeping is good for short times but still uncharges while sleeping... and dont know about hibernating.

 

I usually just close the lid. I believe that puts it to sleep if I'm not mistaken.

 

I've noticed with my 1520 running Vista Ultimate, that it only fully sleeps if I switch to Power Saver mode. Otherwise, the hard drive and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth lights stay on and only the LCD seems to turn off. Is this the norm under High Performance and Balanced modes?

 

I don't think I've used hibernating for a long, long time now. Sleep/Standby's where it's all at. I put my machines into sleep mode everynight as opposed to shutting it down.

 

go into your power scheme settings and make sure for high performance and balanced modes it is set to go to sleep upon closing the lid. it may not be set up correctly on your system.

 

I found the solution to my sleep problem. If you have media sharing enabled, the High Performance and Balanced schemes have a multimedia setting to go into "Away Mode" rather than sleep, so I changed that.

 

I like Hibernation because it doesn't draw any power (the machine is completely off).

Standby does. So you're either draining your battery or always connected to the mains. Luckily the power draw is very small, so it'll take a long time for the battery to be depleted anyway.

But still, you're using up battery cycles for no good reason by leaving it there overnight. Then again I'd probably be happy paying $100-200 for a new battery every couple of years to not have to worry about having to reduce battery wear

 

It also probably isn't a big deal if you have it plugged in as well.