when u put a computer on stanby does it use a lot of electrity or any at all?

Answer 1

To make things clear.

Standby - computer turns off everything but keeps enough power on to maintain memory. It starts up very fast. If you lose power then it will have to restart as though you did a power off.

Hybernate - All memory is saved and all power is completely turned off. When you start up the memory is reloaded in a few seconds.

Power Off - All power is turned. Memory is not saved. Starting up must reinitialize everything and takes much longer than hybernate.

Answer 2

If you are worried about your power bill, you won't see a difference between shutting down or going to standby on one computer, compared to everything else in your house. However, most computers use 40-80% of their running power consumption when in standby so if you have several computers you may see a difference in the bill.

Answer 3

Very little energy used. Much less than normal screen saver which saves monitor energy only. Although you have to wait a while for a comp to get out of standby. Get out with pressing enter (xp). Hibernation uses less energy. On the turn off comp menu, hold shift and click the standby button. It'll turn the comp off, but when you turn on again, you go back to original work.

Answer 4

Well, the BIG CONSUMER of power is your monitor if it's a CRT monitor, the next biggest is your Hard Drive, but it's so far from the power consumption of the CRT monitor that it pales in comparison......you can save about 60% just by turning off the monitor, another 15% by "hibernating" your hard drive. That leaves about 25% for your computer memory, dvd drives, and micro......

Answer 5

when a computer is on stanby it doesn't use as much electricty as it would if it was still turned on

Answer 6

yes it uses electricity but not as much as when its on

Answer 7

It uses some, not much.

Answer 8

no. it save more electricity

Answer 9

just uses less