what is the difference

Between standby and hibernate? If I close the lid of my laptop when it's
in standby is it still using power ?

Michaelangelo...

Hibernate saves more power than standby. It does that by 'saving' an
image of your computers state to your hard drive (programs running,
files open etc) and then powers everything down.

Standby powers down what it can - peripherals, monitor, hard drives etc
- but keeps memory powered up so that your work is not lost. I guess if
you left a lappy in standby for a long time you could run down the
battery and lose open work when it ran out of juice. That shouldn't
happen with standby because the image is safely saved.

Hibernate takes longer to power up again but is safer when running on
batteries and saves more power.

Aries...

That's all I wanted to know, thanks Mike :)

Troy's Human...

I can set my laptop to do whatever I choose when I close the lid.

Been playing with these settings. I think that standby still uses power but
hibernate doesn't. Hibernate seems to switch everything off and when
switched on again, resumes from where it was (as opposed to re-booting).

I'm now using hibernate on my desktop rather than switching off and
starting again. Even got an icon to click on to do it :-)

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°7 +...

Me too, except I don't use an icon, I've just set the start button on the
tower to send it into hibernation.

John #8...

____________________

I guarantee FN you got your information about hibernation
from a bear.

I'm *not* an expert :-)

Aries...

it's interesting hearing what others do :)

Organic Icecube...

I use my two laptops for work stuff most of the time and I've messed about
with all three modes. The summaries above are all accurate. I find that
hibernate mode takes longer to shut down and restart (obviously, because
it's spooling all the running applications to/from hard drive), so unless
you're using several of the same big programmes continuously, there's not
very much point in it. I generally use a proper shutdown, which also
flushes out any 'broken' applications like any normal reboot.

Jeff Gaines...

And if you use standby or hibernate on a laptop you can't be absolutely
sure the screen is turned off because you can't see it with the lid closed
:-)