Which do you do? Shut Down, Hibernate, Sleep or Nothing

I got a new laptop recently and sleep doesn't work
Aw well, I just hibernate now.
I only hibernate when I go to sleep, usually its on during the day even if I'm gone for a while.

 

Well, I put it to sleep when I'm not going to use it for more than 15 minutes or so, but if I'm not going to use it for the rest of the day, I shut it down; also overnight.

 

i got a question..

When i put my laptop to sleep,the internet connection disconnects,i assume this is not normal,so anyone knows how to fix that?

 

i lose my internet connection too..but what is more annoying is that my laptop shuts down after awhile in sleep mode.

 

I have no problems with sleep mode.

 

It's normal for it to turn off when it sleeps - if it didn't it would be using power, and Sleep is designed to power only the memory for power savings. It should resume automatically (within 20 seconds or so) after restarting, however.

 

It should only do that when on battery (or when you put it to sleep on battery). You don't want sleep mode to drain the battery if you put it in your luggage or something. After an hour it will hibernate. You can change those settings in the power settings.

 

Everynight before I go to bed I shut it down, but during that day I leave it turned on while sitting on my desk.

When I take it to class I hibernate it between them.

 

Hibernate FTW

 

Standby, normally.
Hibernate when on battery power (when traveling etc).
Shut down 1x/week.

However, does anyone know if powering the memory all the time (as in standby mode) shortens its life or has any other undesirable effects?

 

Standby mode does use battery life, so it's not good for long trips or when you're away from power for a while. It should hibernate after an hour though, and hibernate uses no power.

 

Sleep when it's gonna be used soon...shut down when sleeping, traveling/moving, or between long periods without use

 

usually hibernate. occasionally i will remember to turn it off over night.

 

I was under the impression that hard drives are better protected now anyway since most higher end computers have implemented technology to sense when the laptop is in motion. Once the technology senses the movement, it stops the hard drive from spinning. The Lenovo T61, the computer that I have been researching and will most-likely purchase, has this technology.

 

Shut Down..

 

sleep...i just love to start up the computer straight away, unless of course, if i'm away from power for long, i'll just shut it down.

 

Disabled Hibernate

when I watch nascar racing, busy around the home, to bedtime I use sleep mode.

remove the battery out, my laptop always stay in one place.

shutdown only when I am going out of home.

BTW, spring is coming and summer on way, heat is the problem, I had to shutdown every nights, humid weather is killer for laptop soars high temp.

Dg

 

Never turn it off, just sleep or hibernate.

 

Same here.

 

Ditto.

Gary

 

But restarting a computer atleast once a week is better for system performance according to Microsoft.

Quoted from the Microsoft article:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/83EC0FFE-EE04-4D53-8B87-25D1F05C954E1033.mspx

Restart regularly
This tip is simple. Restart your PC at least once a week, especially if you use it a lot. Restarting a PC is a good way to clear out its memory and ensure that any errant processes and services that started running get shut down.

Restarting closes all the software running on your PC. Not only the programs you see running on the taskbar, but also dozens of services that might have been started by various programs and never stopped. Restarting can fix mysterious performance problems where the exact cause is hard to pinpoint.

If you keep so many programs, e‑mail messages, and websites open that you think restarting is a hassle, that’s probably a sign you should restart your PC. The more things you have open and the longer you keep them running, the greater the chances your PC will bog down and eventually run low on memory.

 

Lol. What kind of question/poll is this?

For my desktop, I do nothing. It's on 24/7.
For my laptop, I guess shutdown...

 

Interesting... I hadn't seen that. In any case, I do generally restart at least once a week due to either Windows Update, a program update or installation that requires restart, or a system crash. But I don't really have any significant amount of time where the computer is off (and not hibernated). So I either hibernate or I restart... I don't just shut down.

 

Lol you actually shut down when you restart.

 

But you aren't hitting the "Shut Down"

 

Is that clearer?

 

I shutdown mostly, sometimes sleep.

 

I shut it down every night and switch the PSU off. Its called saving the environment!!

 

If you want to do that, you should also unplug the power from the outlet.

 

Standby - when away...for short periods
Shut Down - when not going to be using at all (sleep, work, out and about, etc)

 

As if hibernation was any less green????

Gary

 

Not all laptops have this feature. Lenovo does and also Apple, probably some others too. It would be listed as a feature on the system. What it does is park the heads, not spin down the whole disk.

Once you start paying your own electric bill, you'll turn it off when you're not using it. There's really no reason to keep it on all the time.

Unless you pull the plug, turn off a power strip, or flip the switch on the PSU (on a desktop), both "off" and hibernation still draw a bit of power all the time, and it's more than most people think.

 

If I use my notebook around 5 days a week, for 2 hours each day, should I be shutting it down completely, hibernating or just sleep?

5 days a week, is for a casual I.T class* (not hardcore gaming or anything)

 

I usually put my laptop to sleep and do a shut down every 2-3 days or if there is an update. I don't really have a schedule, that's just what ends up happening.

 

I always sleep... One reason... Just close the lid and it is asleep and open it for instant play...

Couldn't get better!

 

Shut down every night before I sleep, no point keeping it on all the time. Except for downloading.

 

If it's at my desk during the day it's usually turned on. Very rarely do I turn it off unless I know I'm going to be out of the house for long periods (like 12hrs+). But if i'm downloading its staying on...

Going places I turn it off until I get to where i'm going.

Don't really use standby or hibernate.

 

i shut down..when i put my laptop to sleep after a while it goes into hibernation.. i don't know this started happening after installing SP1, and every time i resume from hibernation my pc gets slowwww eventually i will have to restart.. so i just shut down my pc and start when needed again cause it takes 90 sec to come on..so no biggie

 

Oh that laptop is on most of the time..i hardly shut it down...what i usually do is just lock it and close the monitor...i hardly shut it down...that baby is like a server.

I think I need to stop that though....

 

I never shut down my desktop and I'll only sleep a laptop if I am taking it on the road.

 

Me too - I love this feature. I shut it down completely once or twice a week, otherwise I just shut the "lid" and then switch off my external display.

 

Hibernate mostly. Shutdown maybe once a month.

 

My power button is programmed for Hibernation. I use that when I leave the office to head home. And then again at night when I go to bed, I hibernate the machine. My lid close event is programmed for sleep. I use that when away from the machine for short periods of time.

I never ever shutdown. I may do the occasional restart as needed, but never actually shut down.

Gary

 

Gary - any distinct advantages/disadvantages over hibernation vs sleep or shutdown? Or that's just your MO? I have found that I loose my Logitech mouse settings when I wake it up from hibernation - I have to disconnect and re-connect for the custom settings to work. Everything comes back correct with sleep mode.

Always appreciate your point of view.

 

Some hardware drivers HATE sleep and hibernation. Sleep and hibernation implementation is definitely better under Vista than XP.

I use sleep or hibernation. There is no reason to shutdown, unless your computer is gimp and gets grouchy if it wakes up. And this is typically because of poorly written drivers, not hardware.

 

my laptop stays plugged in 98% of it's life...
sleep, standby, and hybernate are all turned off....

XP on a Core 2 Duo w/ 2g of ram boots pretty fast,, and i know for sure the HDD head is parked and away from my data...


bigO

 

But if you're plugged in all the time, your laptop is probably on a desk which means that it's pretty safe from getting bumped around. If that is the case, your HDD should be plenty safe from vibrations so it probably wouldn't hurt to use sleep/hibernation. But each to his/her own.

 

To power up from a cold boot takes about 45 seconds to a login prompt and another 30 seconds to a ready to use state.

To hibernate it takes about 25 seconds to write the contents of memory to the hard drive and shut down, drawing zero power. To restart from hibernation takes 25 seconds to a login prompt and virtually no time to a ready to use state.

To sleep takes about 15 seconds to go into low power state. It powers off everything except the RAM. This mode continues to draw a tiny little bit of power. To restart from sleep is instantaneous to a login prompt and virtually no time to a ready to use state. But again, this mode constantly draws a little bit of power.

There is a hybrid sleep mode too. This writes a hibernation file and then goes into a low power sleep mode. That way if you loose battery power (or are using a desktop machine and the AC power goes out) when you power back up the machine acts like it is coming out of hibernation.

So sleep and hibernate are faster than a cold boot especially if you factor in that you can leave programs running when you hibernate or sleep and they will be running when you resume.

Vista can monitor the sleep mode and after a fixed delay wake the machine up and hibernate. Or it can watch the battery power and do the same if the power drops below a certain level.

As was stated, some drivers do not play well with sleep or hibernate modes.

Gary

 

The HDD is parked in both hiberate and sleep modes. Hibernate mode is a total power off, hence the HDD is parked. Sleep = standby, there is no difference at all. XP called it standby, Vista calls it sleep. Same thing.

Gary

 

Heh, I was gonna mention the HDD is parked but then I scrolled down. People will eventually figure out how much time S3 and S4 state saves them and how useless shutting down is. Probably why Microsoft got rid of the shutdown button and why the power button on computers has defaulted to sleep mode.