kmkrreeves1
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Does anyone know why Microsoft doesn't like hibernate? Windows always hides and/or disables it by default (at least in the past 3 OS's). I was just wondering if anyone had a reason for this, as I occasionally use this feature.
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lucasbytegenius
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Well the reason why that is because Hibernate is combined with Sleep, so if the power goes out your stuff is saved.
speedyink
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Because hibernate blows fat chunks. You may as well turn your computer off it takes so long to resume from.
Sleep is way more ideal for quick on and off with low power draw.
Hibernate is only good for data backup for if your laptop runs out of battery and your power cord is not available. It can let you resume what your doing with zero power draw, albeit with the wait of a standard power on when you do turn it back on.
Sleep is way more ideal for quick on and off with low power draw.
Hibernate is only good for data backup for if your laptop runs out of battery and your power cord is not available. It can let you resume what your doing with zero power draw, albeit with the wait of a standard power on when you do turn it back on.
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lucasbytegenius
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Actually when I was on Windows 7 it was faster to resume from Hibernate than it was to actually boot. Boot times for me were 30-45 seconds, resuming from hibernation usually took 20-25.
kmkrreeves1
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For me it resumes in probably 20 sec. and I have another battery for my laptop, and when I'm in the middle of something and I don't want to close everything and wait 5 min for it to completely reboot, I just hibernate, and when I swap the battery, everything's like it was. It's also useful when I want to leave something where it is, and finish it later, like the next day, I can hibernate, and not worry about it dying and closing everything.
lucasbytegenius
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Yeah when I'm coding a site together I often have multiple browser windows open, Photoshop, a couple editor windows, and several file windows. Kind of a pain to reopen it all so hibernation is great for that.