is it better to hibernate a laptop or to shut down a laptop completely?
400595
shut down is best\n\nhibernate many times slows ur laptop\n\n10 points....plz
982557
I believe most laptops either have a standby or hibernate feature where after a certain time the laptop shuts off automatically. i don't think it's bad to leave it on all night, but if you're laptop has this feature, there's no need to worry about it. it'll turn off by itself.
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Unplug the power cord from the back of the PC, leave it unplugged for 30 seconds.  Plug it back in and turn on the PC, then turn off power save and hibernate.\n\nGood luck HTH!
42366
It depends on the way your computer is set up and how much you use it through out the day. If you don't use your computer everyday, it might be safer to turn it off (and make sure you do a proper shutdown, such as using the start menu if you are on a Windows PC). As for not booting up correctly, there might be bad entries in the registry, or bad/damaged sectors on the hard drive (easily caused by too many impromper shut downs). If you can't figure out how to tell if you do or not, you may want to look for a reputable service center in your area that can help you find out. However, if you use your computer quite a bit, and you just want to turn it off to save power, but not have to wait for it to boot up everytime you need to use it, you may want to look in the control panel under the power options to see if you have support for a hibernation and/or standy-by mode. By using stand-by or hibernation mode, it will help to save on utility costs compared to leaving the computer fully powered on, but it will not require a actual "start up" when you go to return from the stand-by/hibernation mode.
693676
I'm assuming you run your computer on for long amounts of time. The best thing to do is to get a cooling pad like mentioned and to slow down the processor so that it doesn't produce extra heat when not in use/under a large load. http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm Notebook hardware control is a great program you could look into to see temps and to slow the processor down when you don't need all 100%. It can also help save battery life when you're not plugged in.
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If your laptop repeatedly restarts even though you are trying to shut it down, the best thing is that you repair the Operating System. But that is what you don't want to do. You want an alternate way out. \n\nThe best alternative is to put the Laptop into hibernation. There are two ways to do so. \n\nFirst, it is very simple. Just close the screen of the Laptop (I mean to say that just pack it off). The next time when you will open it up, it will have the same program running. No data will be lost and no unusuall behaviour will be shown by the machine. \n\nSecond, you can set up the hibernation option (this is for the Windows users only). Go to Control Panel> Power option. There you will find the hibernation tab. You can then enable the hibernation in your Laptop. After this go to Start> Turn off Computer. Then press "Shift" button. The "Stand By" option will change into the "Hibernate" option. Keep pressing the "Shift" button and click the "Hibernate" button and the Operating System will go into Hibernation. \n\nJust pack it off and go to sleep!
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Umm, just taking a stab here, but..Dont drop it?\n\nSeriously, I try not to move my laptops, or set them down hard while they are running.  Doing so could cause the hard drive's read/write head to scrape across the surface of the disk and render it unusable. \nI watch people all the time walking around with their laptops on and then slam them down on a desk to do something else. Not good at all.
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Standby lets you save energy by turning off the monitor & harddrive.\n\nHibernate saves more energy by essentially turning it off but remembers all your desktop activities (ie. nothing will be removed).  The computer also boots up faster from Hibernate than from a totally off state (persnal observation).\n\nTurn Off:  totally turns your computer off, but it is more time consuming to turn it on.\n\nLog Off: if you have diff users on your computer each having his own password and user name, then log off simply remove the current user (you) and allow the next user to "log on" and use his own settings.
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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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It depends if you need it on all night. If you're doing some maintenance, from time to time, it's okay to leave your computer running all night? Why would you want to leave it running otherwise? Your computer isn't going to last forever. Leaving it running 24 hours a day, seven days a week is just a waste of energy and your computer, if you ask me.
977452
Yes, of course.\nLaptops are made to be charged, and they charge fastest when shut down as they are not relying on power. I have to contradict what someone has said; I leave my laptop charging overnight all the time, and it has not done any damage to the battery.\nI hope what you do, is if you are using the laptop during the day you do not have it running on AC power, I'm pretty sure it is better to be running on battery.
1082948
it's not the operating system that makes your system hybernate it's in the bios you cant turn it on or off you must not have that feature on board why would you want to do this anyway just turn the thing off if your not using it.
897767
To save energy/power/electricity:\n\nShut your computer down if you will not use it for more than 3 hours. Put it in hibernate mode if it will be idle for just a couple of hours. If you will be gone for several minutes, just turn off the monitor (physically) if you are using a desktop PC. If you are using a laptop, make sure that you have set the power options in control panel to turn off h/d and monitor when not in use for a specific number minutes depending on how long you want. Ultimately, to really save energy, only turn-on your PC if you intend to use it.\n\nBy the way Logging-off is a security feature and not a power saving feature. So it does not save energy.
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Depends on how long ur gonna leave it 'idle' for, if its for more than 5 hours, turn it off (eg over night) any less and i'd say let the screen saver run.\n\nOr better yet, use the hibernation option :D It saves all work on ur pc in temp memory than shutsdown, once restarted it opens all the programs that were open previously :D
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Absolutely, but you will want to find a linux that has built in power saving settings.  Windows has features that will detect if the computer it is on is running on battery or on direct power.  When on battery, certain things are done to save energy: CPU is run at slower speed, consuming less power and running cooler.  The CPU fan is run less often.  The screen is run at a lower light level.  And the drives are parked and slept when not in use.  All these extend the life of the battery greatly.  You will want to find a version of linux that can perform these functions or the battery life on the notebooks will be very short.  Even more so since the batteries are very old by now.  If you plan on running the laptops on power all the time, then it will come down to your preference as to what version of Linux you should use.
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There are two schools of thought on this and you can ask 100 experts and get many varying opinions.  If you use your computer often throughout the day, I'd reccomend leaving it on all the time.  If you only use it for a short while once a day then I'd shut it off.  It is correct that you want to reboot every few days; older operating systems often had problems with programs holding memory even when they were no longer running, but this is much less of a problem on today's systems.  I have four computers, and two run all the time; the others I start up as needed.  Of the two that run all of the time, one has Windows XP Media Edition, so it records TV shows throughout the day.  It and the other one that run all of the time donate their computing power to World Community Grid to help find cures for AIDS and cancer when I'm not using them.
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while you shutting down the system... there may b some unwritten data on the ram of ur computer.. if u just turn off the power switch u will lose all the data on the ram.. coz ram is dynamic storage element!! it stores the data only when the power is on!! when u use shutdown it flushes all the unnecessary data and backups some system files on the pc in order to stablize the pc for next time boot up.  so it is necessary to use shutdown dailouge... hope this answer helps u!! bye dude!!