Vista Hibernate question

[ViRaLRuSh]

Does it cause harm shutting down the hard disks etc like that? I know it's generally better to keep everything running 24/7 (I've done it this way for years now, and had very little issues).

Do you feel it's best just to keep it on? I have mine set currently to hibernate after 5 hours of no use, 20 mins for the monitor.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: ViRaLRuSh
Does it cause harm shutting down the hard disks etc like that? I know it's generally better to keep everything running 24/7 (I've done it this way for years now, and had very little issues).

Do you feel it's best just to keep it on? I have mine set currently to hibernate after 5 hours of no use, 20 mins for the monitor.

The 'its better to keep it all running' is an old wives tail.

 

[Nizbot]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: ViRaLRuSh
Does it cause harm shutting down the hard disks etc like that? I know it's generally better to keep everything running 24/7 (I've done it this way for years now, and had very little issues).

Do you feel it's best just to keep it on? I have mine set currently to hibernate after 5 hours of no use, 20 mins for the monitor.

The 'its better to keep it all running' is an old wives tail.

Wives have tails? How odd...

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: ViRaLRuSh
Does it cause harm shutting down the hard disks etc like that? I know it's generally better to keep everything running 24/7 (I've done it this way for years now, and had very little issues).

Do you feel it's best just to keep it on? I have mine set currently to hibernate after 5 hours of no use, 20 mins for the monitor.

The 'its better to keep it all running' is an old wives tail.

also unless you changed the settings. The hard drives suspend after inactivity anyways.

I think the whole leaving it on thing was due to the rush of current that the parts get when they first power on.

Personally I like suspend s3. For fast access to desktop. Laptop I use hibernate if using later and dont wanna save all the crap. Or shutdown on last use.

So its just preference, if you want fast access and dont wanna close all your programs, use S3. IF you want after thing closed and wanna fresh restart use shutdown. Or use hibernate for more program integrity.

As far as power usage I believe hibernate is the same as shut down. And S3 is small amount of usage.

But considering that even when powered off your computer pulls power, i would be curious to see the differences between the three methods.

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

Well, I decided to keep the hibernate option enabled, but changed it to 5 hours.

Ever since I changed it, it won't actually hibernate anymore. I went to bed, went back on the pc after 7 hours...it wasn't in hibernate. Is there something I'm missing?

Also, what exactly is S3? Pardon my noobness on this matter. How do I set that?

 

[nerp]

Hibernation is great. It's like being fully off but will bring you back to a booted windows pretty quickly.

S3 is Hybrid sleep. IN power options, look for "allow hybrid sleep" under the options.

If your machine isn't hibernating, I think I might know the reason. I had this problem with some of my machines for a while and I was pulling my hair out until I figured it out.

Go into WMP and make sure that media sharing is turned off. If this setting isn't turned off, your machine will be stuck forever polling network drives and broadcasting the fact that it can share media.

Google a bit on the problem, there are many resources to solve sleep/hibernation issues and even a useful utility that will show you every app running that might keep your machine from hibernating. I forget its name, unfortunatley.

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

I think you may be right on the WMP issue with it. I did use media center yesterday and played around with some settings so maybe that affected it.

I'll take a look when I get home. Thanks for your help so far.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: nerp
Hibernation is great. It's like being fully off but will bring you back to a booted windows pretty quickly.

S3 is Hybrid sleep. IN power options, look for "allow hybrid sleep" under the options.

If your machine isn't hibernating, I think I might know the reason. I had this problem with some of my machines for a while and I was pulling my hair out until I figured it out.

Go into WMP and make sure that media sharing is turned off. If this setting isn't turned off, your machine will be stuck forever polling network drives and broadcasting the fact that it can share media.

Google a bit on the problem, there are many resources to solve sleep/hibernation issues and even a useful utility that will show you every app running that might keep your machine from hibernating. I forget its name, unfortunatley.

Yeah im gonna turn that off now... not that i am having any issues lol but i dont like it and odnt use it

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: nerp
Hibernation is great. It's like being fully off but will bring you back to a booted windows pretty quickly.

S3 is Hybrid sleep. IN power options, look for "allow hybrid sleep" under the options.

If your machine isn't hibernating, I think I might know the reason. I had this problem with some of my machines for a while and I was pulling my hair out until I figured it out.

Go into WMP and make sure that media sharing is turned off. If this setting isn't turned off, your machine will be stuck forever polling network drives and broadcasting the fact that it can share media.

Google a bit on the problem, there are many resources to solve sleep/hibernation issues and even a useful utility that will show you every app running that might keep your machine from hibernating. I forget its name, unfortunatley.

I'd love to know that utility, never heard of anything like it.

Anyways, if this is a desktop, use S3.

Hybrid sleep is technically a combination of S3 (Suspend) and S4 (Hibernation), so if the power goes out for any reason, everything is still saved. It takes longer to go into sleep, and the power rarely ever goes out, so I dont really bother with it.

Power usage is about the same either way, which is pretty much the same as turning it off entirely.