which is more energy saving, hibernate or turn off the computer?
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There is no power difference between shutting it off and hibernation.  Technically in both cases the computer is off, hibernation just stores whatever is in your RAM onto the hard drive, and then when you turn it back on it loads it back into the RAM so it is like you never left.  Do not confuse hibernation with stand-by, the computer is OFF when you hibernate.
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There are two schools of thought on this subject and both are correct in their own reasoning.\n\nOne side says shut down your computer because you will wear out the bearings in your hard drive. Which if you are just an occasional user this would be good advice.\n\nThe other side says leave it on or let it hibernate because the repeated temperature fluctuations of turning on and off the computer will crack the solder joints on the board. Which if you are every day user would also be good advice.\n\nWhich way to go? That would be up to you.
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When the computer goes into hibernate mode, it saves a bunch of stuff, creating the large file. YOu can turn off hibernation by going to control panel and power settings. You really should keep your pagefile unless you have a gig or two of memory, otherwise there could be a problem. Do not try to delete the page file.\n\nRead about them here\nhttp://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/hiberfil-sys-xp.html\nhttp://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php
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just leave it on.\n\nthat's my answer.  but you do have to edit your power preferences so your computer doesn't turn off after 2 hours of non use.  other than that, I don't know.
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Turn it off first if you care for your laptop..
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Are you turning the computer OFF or STANDBY?
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If you program to do that, then... It will do it by itself. If you turn off a computer, you must reboot to restart it. If you have it hibernate, it does not need to reboot.
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What ever you decide to do, do NOT leave your computer running all the time for no good reason.\n\n1> Would you leave your car running all the time just because your starter or other parts might wear out from turning it on or off?\n\n2> Your computer uses the equivalent of 3-5 light bulbs of electricity. You wouldn't leave 5 lights on in your house all the time without a good reason.\n\n3> Sleep mode stores everything. When the computer "wakes up" it comes back with everything that is in memory (good and bad...) If there was an error in its memory, that comes back too. When you reboot, everything loads fresh.\n\n4> Hibernate is a little better than sleep.  Hardware has a hard time waking up from sleep a lot of times.  Hibernate effectively turns off the hardware completely while it is off.  I like hibernate a lot better than sleep or standby.\n\n5>  Shut your computer down when you are going to be away from it for a long time.  You decide what a "long time" means to you. It's okay if you leave it on all day or for a few hours at a time... Just don't leave it on if you aren't going to be using it.\n\n6> Keep in mind that electronics hate heat.  The hotter they get, the worse they run.  Leaving your computer on all the time subjects it to heat that it just doesn't need.  Under normal conditions, heat isn't a big problem:  The computer deals with it with fans.  However the longer you leave your computer on, the less normal the conditions become.
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Turn your computer off.....duh.
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Depending on how much you "strain" your computer, the RAM will get more and more fragmented thus the performance will get worse.\nIf you don't need your computer running at night time, shut it down! This will save energy and spare the components.\n\nThere is still a common misbelief that turning the computer off and on will lead to a higher power consumption caused by the boot process. Not with todays computers!
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You must be logged on to your computer with an owner account in order to complete this procedure.\n\n1. Open Power Options in Control Panel. (Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Power Options.)\n \n\n2. Click the Hibernate tab, select the Enable hibernate support check box, and then click Apply.\n\nIf the Hibernate tab is unavailable, your computer does not support this feature.\n\nPower options\n\n3. Click the APM tab, click Enable Advanced Power Management support, and then click Apply.\n\nThe APM tab is unavailable on ACPI–compliant computers. ACPI automatically enables Advanced Power Management, which disables the APM tab.\n \n\n4. Click the Power Schemes tab, and then select a time period in System hibernates. Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.\n\nIf you are using Windows XP Home Edition, or Windows XP Professional with Fast User Switching turned on, the Shut Down menu will present the options to Stand By, Turn Off, or Restart your computer. Hold down the Shift key, and the Stand By button will change to Hibernate. \n\nYou might want to check the ThinkPad Keyboard Customizer Utility.\n\nIt enables predefined assignment for:\n- A Windows key and an Application key on ThinkPad keyboard.\n- Audio volume control buttons, a mute button, a ThinkPad button/Access IBM button, Suspend/Hibernate, Wireless Radio Control, EasyEject, Full Screen Magnifier, and Presentation Director on the external keyboard.
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Modern computers and operating systems do not require a daily shutdown. They are stable enough to handle being on for weeks or months at a time in most cases. That said, as long as your computer's on, it's drawing power. This costs money, contributes to global warming, etc. If you're not running a server, there's probably no need to keep it running if you're not actively using it.
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Its better leave your computer ON.\nWhen you turn ON your computer, the PC uses the double of power. If you leave it ON, you may use half of power, but try to leave it ON with some Energy Rescue Resources, like "Suspend System".\n\nJuan. Bs As, Argentina.
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On LapTops definitely turn it off, it will wear down the battery. On desktops I will turn it off, if your not gonna use it within six hours. The reason for this is I find I have to replace more fans on computer used 24 hours than on the ones that are shut down everynight. If your cpu fan burns out while no one is using the computer, your cpu can burnout as well, costing a bit.
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Yes. Easy. Go to  the energy saver in system preferences and regulate the turn off time there.
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Yes. Assuming you have a PC: Go to your Control Panel and open Power Options. You can change the settings for your sytem's stand-by and hibernate options, or turn them off completely.
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Off of coure is it's for hours but for short piorod's of time it wont hurt to leave it on. But even you computer needs it's sleep some times it will help it! Just like sleep hepls you! Plus you save on your power bill!