hibernate in win2k

[lighthse]

what's the good and bad point about hibernate in win2k??

 

[lighthse]

update

 

[Techwhore]

Good points:

When enabled, it stores whatever is in your RAM at shutdown to a designated space on your hard drive. This means that the next time you boot, whatever windows and applications you had running when you shutdown will open and run at startup.

This is effective for laptops because it saves you time opening up everything again and potentially wasting battery life with the time it takes you to do it.

Bad points:

It takes up x amount of space on your hard disk. I guess with todays standards of 30 gig hard drives, what's 128 or 256 MB anyway??

It's not really all that useful for desktops, unless of course you tend to have tons of things open at the same time, and would like those same appz open the next time you boot.

And windows of course takes longer to set itself up because aside from the the usual stuff it's got to initialize, it now has to open your appz.



That's about it. I've used it before, it's cool, but the amusement dies quickly. Maybe you'll need it more than I did...

 

[lighthse]

will this eat up my memory during startup?
which will result lesser mem for my grahics editing...

 

[Techwhore]

When windows starts up again, whatever is in the hibernate area of the hard disk will be transferred to RAM, where it was when you shut down. So yes, it will take up RAM. But the hibernate feature doesn't require any RAM itself. If you feel that you don't have enough mem, simply close some appz down.

Just think of it as having never shutdown.

 

[OggyDoggy]

I agree. To tell you the truth... I tested once to see how it works and haven't used it since. It works the way it's suppose to, but it's probably better to just power down the laptop if you need to save power. It takes about the same amount of time and you are asured taht all your data is saved.

If you are using your machine for any multi-media editing, then yes, disable it.


Oggy Doggy

 

[5mudge]

Hibernate's cool if you have a notebook and work at a company with multiple offices. If you have to visit multiple places in oe day, you can release your IP at Site 1, hiberate, wakeup at Site 2, and renew your IP there and keep going....

I use it everyday on my laptop, but never on my desktops.

 

[ProviaFan]

I use it a lot with my desktop system and lightning storms...just hibernate...shut off...unplug...wait for storm to be over...boot...I'm running again exactly where I was. This is useful since on my slow system it's a lot faster to read in 192MB of ram backup than to load Windows 2000, services, applications, log in, etc.

 

[HansXP]

<< I use it a lot with my desktop system and lightning storms...just hibernate...shut off...unplug...wait for storm to be over...boot...I'm running again exactly where I was. This is useful since on my slow system it's a lot faster to read in 192MB of ram backup than to load Windows 2000, services, applications, log in, etc. >>



Get a surge protector

 

[lighthse]

i'm using my desktop for multimedia editing...so i guess i won't be using it

 

[Zoltarc]

<< Get a surge protector >>



I think lightning would make mince meat of a surge protector

 

[ProviaFan]

I do have a surge protector, but not a U.P.S., but I still unplug it anyway; I'd hate to have to replace > $1000 of equipment just because I was too lazy to spend 15 seconds to shutdown and unplug the thing.

 

[Escalade]

<< Get a surge protector >>


Get a UPS

Not only will you get surge protection, but you'll also be protected from; brownouts, power outages, cable/modem/dsl line spikes. Plus you'll get automated shut-downs when you're away from the pc! Most UPS units also have a warranty that'll replace you equipment (up to something like $25k or $100k) if it should be damaged.

 

[TimeThrash]

My MSI6167 Athlon board doesn't support hibernation. WTF is that. It's like the easiest thing to program.
Tt

 

[lighthse]

will hibernate put strain on the ram? thus reduce the life span of ram...
ram should be emptied upon shutdown and startup...