is hibernating alright?

[xbonez]

I have a compaq presario V2000 laptop. hibernating the lappy is obviously faster than shuttng it down. even gettin it up is much faster., what if i never shutdown my lappy and always just hibernate it? is it alright or is it harmful for the sys?

[Ron]

Hey buddy.............
it depends upon ur ram.......................
Suggestion : Not to Hibernate ur PC............as Hibenate mks ur PC fast for first few Days.........but as the time goes ......It slows the Pc......................
Instead of Hibernating...............Get greater Ram....So that ur Pc Shuts down Faster as well as open................................
You can try different Tips and tricks................so that ur PC speed increases

[satyamy]

hibernating is good & better
just shutdown & restart your lap once a week
this will remove temp files
reset do hibernate............

[shaunak]

Hibernating is perfectly allright. Infact it is recomended over "sleep" as it consumes less power.

Hibernate simply saves whatever data is on the ram onto you HDD. The slowing down after periodic use could be due to excess defaragmentation of your drive or temp file build up which can be cleaned using disk cleanup.

hibernating gives you an instant shutdown [in vista, forgot if it does the same in Xp] and the startup times are the same as regular startups.

Do note [obiously] all ongoing downloads will be suspended and WMP will go back to the 1st song on its list on startup.

And you do not need to upgrade your RAM at the drop of a hat.

[abhijangda]

Hey friend hibernating your pc is good but remember to restart your pc once in a day to remove all temp files.

[xbonez]

so if i switch off my pc once in two days or so and hibernate it rest of the times, its perfectly alright? that's pretty cool. it's so much more convenient

[gxsaurav]

I hibernate my PC in the day time, but shut it down when going to sleep. Best thing to do.

[khattam_]

Hibernate without problems.. Its perfectly safe to do it.. Restart only when you install\uninstall programs and they want you to restart.... No need to shutdown.......

@Ron...
I dont get how hibernating makes your PC slow?? Can you elaborate with some technical details..... I dont think it does...

[s18000rpm]

Sometimes hibernation slows the PC only when you are working with heavy apps. or games.

e.g. if i'm playing NFS MW (on 512MB RAM pc), after resuming from hibernation (game's not exited, just minimized), the game runs DAMN SLOW, with horrible frame rate issue., the game returns to normal speed after i restart it. (not pc), & sometimes the RAM gets full becoz of a app. (Opera, IE) or faulty app., so to recover the normal PC speed, you got to restart the pc.

[Wannabe_a_techie]

Yes hibernating is all right.

But shutdown and startup at least once a week to clear temp files, registry, etc, caches, which can eventually slow down your laptop.

[Ron]

hey............buddy hibernating slows down the PC..........in very small amount...........I am observing these days.........as ..I found out the slow speed of my pc was actually due to the Norton Antivirus....................Sorry for wrong info.......as it has not been a much time............... spendin my tim in front of pc..............as .Probably i am working with my PC since i join this forum.........

[mahendraraut]

hibernating is quite good. but if anytime u found that the pc is slow down that time only restart ur machine once so that pagefile can be cleaned..

[Vishal Gupta]

I always use Hibernation in my Laptop. Its quite good and doesnt slow down the system. Yeah, restarting once in a week is a good option.

[shashank4u]

it is alright to use hibernation no harms..but restart it once in 2-3 days..

[knight17]

Me too belive that Hibernating your computer doesn't causes any problem, it may take up a little bit space save the memory dumps though.

[s18000rpm]

if you browse daily, then i think to FREE up RAM, you HAVE to restart/shut-down the PC daily.

coz whenever i use Opera, it shoots the RAM usage to 90+MB (with 6 tabs tabs open), & this RAM is not recovered after closing Opera. so only option for me is to shut-down the PC every night.

[nishant_nms]

u may hibernate PC without any fear