Category: Geeks r Us
How do you have your power settings configured?
When you shut your laptop, how is it suppose to respond?
I tried to look up the difference between sleep and standby. I found my answer, but it doesn't look like my system has sleep.
What brought this shut your laptop topic to mind... Is Lol, I noticed on tv shows, all the characters just shut there laptops. Someone walks in, and said character shuts there laptop and dashes off. Grin, just curious.
Mine goes on standby, but there's also a hibernate option which is almost like shutting it off.
there were some laptops in the early 90's that you could just shut the lid on and they'd shut down, open up the lid and they'd spring to life back to the ap and text you were on.
I have all mine set to standby. Note that hybination tends to cause bad fragmentation.
You may have to enable hibernation in your power options to get it to sho wup in your list of things that you want the computer to do. Mine goes on standby when I close the lid, then after a while, will go into hibernation mode.
I always have my lappy set to standby yet it still runs sweet as a nut once its been difragged and I don't have problems with that even when my lappy hybernates when I'm not using it.
Jen.
When I shut mine, it goes to sleep, which is esentially stand-by. If left for a long enough time, it goes into deep sleep, which is the same as hibernation. It was configured that way from Apple, and it works fine for me, so I just leave it alone.
apparrently if you close your lap-top and travel with it you are more likely to fark up your hard drive, and it messes up things really badly because it's not all the way shut down or something there fore mine closes and stays on. yay for it or something. This is why i shut down between classes.
Mine goes to sleep and revives quite quickly when I open the lid. When I used a Windows laptop I put it in hybernate and it 9 out of 10 times woke up succesfully.
Yeah, mine wakes up successfully every time as well. Wonder why, Willie? Hmm!
If your using Vista, there should be two modes: Sleep, and Hybrid sleep. I'm not sure what the difference is, but with vista, mine goes to sleeep when I close the lid, and when I lift the lid up, comes up pretty quickly
I think mine hybernates, but not sure..
Jessies only wakes up successfully because most of the time he's in bootcamp