From: "Robert Comer" 

I never turn my machines off.

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Bob Comer


"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:444ba6b8$1{at}w3....
> Gregg N wrote:
>> Is there a reason you prefer hibernate over standby?
>
> Usually when I turn my machine on I'm in no rush to sit down at it. I come
> home from work, turn it on, and then my dog barks at me demanding a walk.
> So I walk the dog while it comes out of hibernation.
>
> I'm trying to save the time of starting apps, opening projects, scrolling
> to where I last was, and opening various web pages.
>
> The web page bit is a biggie. I do a lot of web searches to come up with
> content for my web logs (e.g. http://www.futurepundit.com) and have pages
> in my browser for a day or two or three. I do not want to lose that stuff.
> But I do not need fast starts.
>
>> Standby is generally much quicker both entering and leaving it. With
>> hibernate, you must go through a normal BIOS boot cycle, and when Windows
>> boots it loads the saved image from the hibernate file. With standby,
>> memory and CPU are kept in a standby power state, so there is no boot
>> cycle. Hibernate is really more for laptops than desktops.
>>
>> Gregg

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