2006-07-30 03:55:42 · 11 answers · asked by anand p 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Shut down, saves energy, less prone to problems.
2006-07-30 03:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by ideaquest 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on situatiuon.
Suppose you r doing something imp. on your laptop. U hv a sudden need to take a leak. Why shut it down and restart it later and start the applications all over again ? Hibernate it. come back and get going from where you let of.
But if u gonna keep the laptop swithced off for more that 3-4 hours , it is then upto you whether u hibernate.
Repetative hibernating slows down primary partition a bit. Better to restart it every 5-6 hibernation.
Hibernating doesnot harm your laptop or harddrive in anyway. go ahead and do it. That is why this feature is available after all.
2006-07-30 04:06:47 · answer #2 · answered by 3dillusion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. Hibernate turns the laptop off and saves any contents that were running in RAM to the hard drive so Windows can be resumed more quickly, the laptop is off and is not consuming any energy.
Shutting down turns the laptop off and stops all processes, Windows has to go through the entire boot process again.
If you are only leaving your laptop for a short time (less than an hour), standby, if you are leaving it for more than an hour (a long lunch), hibernate, if you are done with it for the day and aren't going to use it any more, shut it down and charge it (if the battery was depleted by 50% or more).
Standby maintains the contents in memory by supplying power to the RAM only so Windows will resume even more quickly than Hibernate (see above).
Also, Hibernate does require hard drive space (however much memory you have installed, for example 1GB then 1GB of hard drive space will be required to Hibernate).
2006-07-30 04:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shut Down
2006-07-30 05:25:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To shut down is a much better choice..Hibernate does not shut down the computer processes..Processing stops but data is still stored somewhere..if ur computer crashes or damages during the hibernation, its less likely u will be able to retrieve ur past data or unsaved data.
2006-07-30 04:22:47 · answer #5 · answered by ViRuZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you are coming back to the computer any time soon, hibernation is the best bet, but I've noticed that leaving a computer in hibernation mode too long, it is very sluggish when you boot it back up.
2006-07-30 10:41:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To shut down.
2006-07-30 03:58:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shut it down
2006-07-30 03:58:13 · answer #8 · answered by yoohoosusie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you are in the middle of the day and are gonna se it again, then hibernate. But you need hard disk space to hibernate, so if you have your hard disk filled, to capacity, it may not work. I think shutting down makes it harder for hackers to get in... i dunno.
2006-07-30 03:59:05 · answer #9 · answered by keybaordz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shut down unless you want the convenience of not waiting for it to boot up.
2006-07-30 03:57:54 · answer #10 · answered by NA A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋