Hi It is a good idea to restart the system as often as practically feasable. Each time you do that, the OS gets a chance of cleaning up the memory and close all pointers to memory locations. In conclusion, hybernate, when you don't have the time to restart; otherwise, always do a normal shutdown. Harish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [AI] does hibernation harm the laptop?
> The fundemental diference between hibernation and stand by mode is > that the former requires a bit of power and the later doesn't. When > you put your system in to hibernation mode, it sleeps without closing > your programs and you can start working wherever you left before. > Technically it shouldn't harm the system. But I will be a bit careful > about the stand by mode particularly when I don't have enough of > back-up power. Also Vista systems are designed in such a way that when > you are running out of power, then the system automatically gets in to > hibernation. > > On 20/11/2007, mufazal munshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i too, put my lap top on stand by mode frequently... but that does not >> seem >> like a good idea to do for a long period of time.... jaws and all other >> software misbehave after i reboot from such a stand by mode over a length >> of >> time. >> >> muffi. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Abdul Razique Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:55 PM >> Subject: [AI] does hibernation harm the laptop? >> >> >> > Hello list members, >> > Could anyone please tell me whether or not regular hibernation of >> > laptops >> > harm the system? I usually hibernate my laptop instead of shutting it >> > down. >> > >> > Expecting suggestions, >> > Abdul >> > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > with the subject unsubscribe. >> > >> > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> > please visit the list home page at >> > >> > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with >> the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in