what Standby does in win xp????

Answer 1

You can put the computer on standby when it is idle. While on standby, your entire computer switches to a low-power state where devices, such as the monitor and hard disks, turn off and your computer uses less power. When you want to use the computer again, it comes out of standby quickly, and your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. Standby is particularly useful for conserving battery power in portable computers. Because Standby does not save your desktop state to disk, a power failure while on Standby can cause you to lose unsaved information.

Answer 2

Standby mode in Windows is used to conserve power, usually on laptops. When a computer goes into standby, it makes a temporary file of what is in the computer's memory at that moment, and then turns off the monitor, hard drive, etc.. On the next reboot, rather than completely reloading Windows, it loads that temp file so that it comes up exactly where it was when you went into standby. Can come up much faster.

This is useful if you are in the middle of something and want to power down temporarily within saving everything and going through the whole shut down process. Or if you are on a laptop and the battery is dying.

I see it used frequently by people who need to take their laptops to a meeting, so they "stand by" so they can move the laptops within endangering their data, but shen they get to the meeting, they can restart and pick up where they left off without a complete reboot.

Be warned, the "stand by" is not completely reliable, and too often a computer will hang up and not come of of "stand by". So you have to turn it off and reboot, which could lose any unsaved data or even corrupt Windows

Answer 3

Standby is a function that shuts down power on certain aspects of your pc, such as the monitor to conserve electricity. It does however keep the hard drive running, so the power saving is not huge. You can set how much idle time you want the computer to wait for in 'power options' in control panel.
There is also an option called hibernate, where the state of the pc is saved to a file on the hard drive and the computer powers down completely.
When you fire it back up, it reads the data from the file and puts your pc back into the 'state' it was in when you hibernated.
This option is available through task manager (press CTRL+Shift+ESC) in the shut down options.

Answer 4

Put's your Windows XP MAchine to sleep mode...which means that the system is not shutdown but silent without running.
It comes up instantly the wway it was when you retrieve from sleep mode.

Similar to Hibernate mode except that Standy consumes some battery whereas Hibernate does not.