Hibernate

[shylock73]

I always close my PC by hibernating. What I wish to know is, is it a safe thing to do to leave it over- night this way? I`m juast going to do this now so `night all` I`ll look in in the a/m.

[Ethel]

Perfectly safe - and if you turn the monitor off the pct uses very very little electricity and saves the reboot time,

If you are fretting about it though, turn it off.

[shylock73]

Thankyou ethel

[WoWo]

Personally I'd turn it off properly, Windows is full of ruibbish which clogs up the memory of your computer and means over time the PC becomes slower that it should be.

[ACtheTROLL]

If you use hibernate ... it uses no electricity at all
the options are misnamed

suspend actually puts the machine into a hibernation
the machine is still powered on ... but all the hardware is sleeping - so there is a small and constant consumption.
(if you unplug ... the machine will loose it's information)


whereas hibernate suspends the machine by using a large file (hiberfile.sys) saved to the hard disc which stores the memory state. the machine then switches off.
cut the power ... and when you restart ... you will be returned to where you left off.

you still need to switch off occasionaly ... windows will work for days without crashing .... but eventually it all becomes too much

[shylock73]

Thanx WoWo & AC, While I`m talking to you can you tell me......is there anything I can do for when I answer my e-mail to answer bank I after reading re-ply`s I return to my homepage and have to sign-in again every time? It`s a bit tedious if I have several replies to read.

[shylock73]

Cancel that last request as I found that clicking on to the little house takes me back to homepage and I`m still signed-on.