Standby, Hibernate or Shut Off?

[Bonafide]

Hibernate

 

[nublee]

Originally Posted by Mangudai954

Stand by. Always.


Side question: Am I the only one who's computer with sometimes turn back on after I tell it to go into stand by?

This happened to me too. It didn't really affect anything as far as I know, but it still bothered me; hence why I use hibernate now

 

[seniosoul]

Originally Posted by JPioneer

Uptime is probably somewhere near 500 hours... Sleeping with your PC on

windows XP-type "systeminfo" without quotes in the command prompt look for system up time

windows 7 - go to task manager and click the perfomance tab...up the "system" column see "uptime"

my computer been on continuously for 8days, 9hours, 0minutes,

 

[airjordan jb23]

Standby when im out... Shut down when im sleeping

 

[silverswoosh]

Shut down.

 

[mistahcookie]

hibernate = when i go out
shut off = when i hit the sheets

 

[sneakaprince]

Shut off at night hibernate during the day or when im away fo long hours

 

[kingkb34]

Shut down before bed every night...trying to keep the electric bills low.

 

[ellimacecyoj]

Lol, I thought I was the only one who never shuts down my computer. I put it to sleep whenever I'm not using it.

 

[thedudemt]

Originally Posted by Mangudai954

Stand by. Always.


Side question: Am I the only one who's computer with sometimes turn back on after I tell it to go into stand by?

This happens to me as well. I close it which is suppose to go to sleep but then it restarts and is on again. Makes me

!!!

 

[recycledpaper]

for all the cats who are experiencing their computers coming back on after hibernate/stand-by, are you using vista? i heard it was a problem with vista andthat it jump starts your HD again, hence why it turns on thinking YOU turned it on.

google it, there's a way to fix it. can't remember off the top of my head though.

 

[gabe gotti]

For some reason I treat my computer the way I want it to treat me. I be keeping it mad clean. Trying to go the correct routes to shut down or sleep etc.

Hoping this will enhance and help the comp run better.

 

[atsymbol]

windows key U U.

Shutdown

Everytime I'm not planning on using it for an hour or more.

Save ze bills, save ze components, save ze world. Start-up time is pretty quick, I don't have many useless programs running on startup.

 

[badjustin]

shut down before going to sleep

 

[gg0tti]

I basically let it decides what it wants to do. Because I tell it to stand and in the middle of the night its turns back on itself.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Originally Posted by Mangudai954

Stand by. Always.


Side question: Am I the only one who's computer with sometimes turn back on after I tell it to go into stand by?

Do you have a Dell XPS? Because mine does that every time I put it on standby. Turns on for like a minute and then turns back off.

 

[bravo]

my desktop was never turned off this past semester. because of this reason im switchin to a laptop lol

 

[oidreez]

close lid

 

[fresh prince of nowhere]

I leave it on sleep throughout the day, and it hibernates after like 4 hours of not being used. I make sure I shut it downlike every 3 days tho

 

[D StaXX]

Originally Posted by SaNTi0321

Sleep / Close lid.

Shutdown before I go to bed.

 

[grimey]

How can out find out how long your pc been on

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Originally Posted by Grimey

How can out find out how long your pc been on

Run > cmd > type "systeminfo" without the quotes

Me = 10 days 1 hour

I never turn off my PC

What is the most cost efficient way to handle this? Turn it off and unplug it?

 

[ac4three]

Sleep.

 

[spidermachine916]

i keep mine turned off.

 

[majicman]

just shut it down. it erases cache memory.