Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Is It Safe To Hibernate Our Laptop or Computer?

WE often see an option of HIBERNATE when we SHUTDOWN our laptop, most of us also know what is HIBERNATING. HIBERNATE is an alternative of SHUTDOWN. Often we use  HIBERNATE  option because
  • It is fast when we resume the windows.
  • It consumes no power.
Now we often think that if is it safe for going to HIBERNATE instead of the SHUTDOWN.  Theoratically there is no harm to windows of HIBERNATING . but Practically it is not always the same? 
The answer depends on various matters about our usage of windows. What   HIBERNATE   does actually is that "it makes an backup of the RAM on our hardisk  and resumes it when we star our laptop again , But in  SHUTDOWN  it clears all RAM and restarts from a new end totally. 
The factors affected by  HIBERNATING  
  • BIOS
  • DRIVERS
  • WIRELESS NETWORK
Now coming on BIOS, when we  HIBERNATE  our computer BIOS sometimes dosn't support it, It Is mainly a problem in Older machines but in new one its not exactly the problem , newer ones are free from this factor.
But we can update the BIOS of older computers but that might not also solve the problem? Because-
Then comes DRIVERS, the various hardware device connecting to computers, For eg. mobiles, can also cause some problem but its not a very big issue too.
It gets complicated when we explain about wireless network.
But what is importent that we look at results not the factors.
So the first answer to our question is simply this: there's nothing wrong with always using  HIBERNATE  as much as you like, unless you find that it doesn't work, or that problems result. If it works, it's nifty and faster and as you said, more convenient than opening up all those applications each time you turn on the machine.
The second answer really boils down to how long you can leave Windows running continuously without a problem. Once again in theory, forever. And once again in practice: not so much. This is particularly due to applications that don't release resources the way they should - occasionally even applications that are part of Windows itself - you simply need to reboot to clean things out. How often depends on many, many things including the hardware and software installed and how you use the machine. As one data point, I'll typically leave my relatively active desktop computer running for weeks at a time.
Usually until a Windows Update comes along that requires a reboot and resolves the question for me.
If that update-related reboot doesn't come along you may find that, once in a while, you'll want to reboot ..

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