Is it best to leave a PC laptop on hibernate?

Question

Someone told me I shouldn't shut down my PC at all, just let it sleep or make it hibernate. What should I do? My laptop is brand new, sony vaio brand.

If I have anything open in the browser while it is hibernating, it will say "mozilla firefox not responding" and slow down for a minute or so once the computer is back on.

Answer 1

Shutdowns for anything longer than 30 minutes, using the 'hibernate' method gives several benefits: It's a near zero power state; all 'Startup' folder items are already loaded, Windows background services are already 'up', and all open work moves to the hard drive, yielding really fast start-ups.

And if power is lost (storms, etc.) the document or picture you were working on won't be lost like it would be in 'Standby' mode, and the system will resume just where you left it.

That's because things in RAM are moved to the hard drive.

"Sleep" is keeping things in RAM, but only some aspects are not working, like the display.

If there's power interruption, that RAM data is lost.

Laptops in Hibernate can be completely de-energized> moved> left sitting for months and when re-energized, will resume just where you left it.



I always use Hibernate, except when directed to 'Shut Down' or 'Restart' from an installation or Update.



On the Internet connection: yes it does take a few seconds to resolve your IP...just the way it is.

Firefox can be configured to resume just as you leave it:

To have tabs re-open when you start FF again:

Tools> Options> Main> Startup heading: in top slot, the drop menu, select 'Show my windows and tabs from last session'> OK out.

Then when it comes back, on the bottom of the main window will be 2 buttons: select "Restore session". It then goes back to the URL's you had at the time of shutdown, and reloads that page from the server.



I guarantee this is faster than reloading Windows.

Answer 2

Really depends on a few things: How much you're using your laptop, and how the battery works.



Mac laptops are designed very well to hibernate (and actually function better that way.) I'm sorry to say that sony vaio is one of the WORST laptops I've ever had the misfortune of owning... word of advice: Keep it immaculately clean. No carpet, cloth, dust, touching it whatsoever. It heats up like mad.



I would personally shut it down every so often (I used to 'close it all' properly 2-3 times a week and just hibernate other times).





Oh and sony vaio... once again, bleurgh. Seriously keep it clean~!

Answer 3

If you are simply going to take it from Place A to Place B, or you aren't going to be using it for a few hours, then hibernate it.



If it is going to be unused for a long while, say all afternoon or overnight, then shut it down.



When you are leaving it shut down, don't leave it plugged in to charge, especially not overnight.



Leaving a laptop plugged into mains for extended periods of time whether it is off or in hibernate can seriously degrade the life of your battery.

Answer 4

its best to shut it down , and hibernate is pretty much like shutting down , cuz here's how it workd , it takes a space on ur hard drive to store all of the thing u were doing on ur pc , and resume it once u turn the pc on , it literly shuts down everything but ur hard drive , on te other hand shutting down is way much better , so stick with shutting down and it won't hurt if u hibernate from time to time

hope that helps

Answer 5

Put a laptop into hibernate is a function shouldn't be use at all, had a lot of errors, when not in use always shutdown,hibernate or the sleep function put it in a low power state not good for browsers especially ,firefox ,google chrome or opera, and sometimes errors occur in some of the windows files.

Answer 6

I have never found a computer to wake up properly from hibernate. And as hibernate turns the hard drive anyway, turn the thing off.

Answer 7

Whoever told you to never shut down the computer is retarded.Hibernate is not the same as shut down and if you keep doing that you'll have a surprise one day that you'll have to restart

Answer 8

I always shut it down

Answer 9

ALWAYS shut down your computers!