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Standby and hibernate guide

Hey guys!! I wanted to put this little lesson together about using standby or hibernate to
basically keep your computer "ready to go". For those of you who don't know what those
are: Standby cuts power to fans, monitors, hdd's, as all these are high power consumers.
Standby is nice because it stores the current system setup (everything you are doing at
that time), and stores them in the memory. A small amount of power is fed to the
memory for this purpose. NOTE: If you lose power in standby, you will lose the info in
the memory (the stuff outlined above), but DON"T WORRY!!! You only lose what you
didn't save!!! To use standby, simply go to START>TURN OFF COMPUTER>STANDBY.
That easy. When you do this, you'll find the system boots up MUCH faster because the
info is already in memory!!

this way because in the event of power loss, you won't lose you're settings because they
are on the hdd. To use hibernate, we have to enable it. To do this: START>CONTROL
PANEL>POWER OPTIONS. Here, you'll make some choices based on you're personal
likings, but we are only interested in enabling (it will tell you how much disk space is
needed). Then click APPLY, and OK. Now that we enabled it, let's use it!!!! To do this:
START>TURN OFF COMPUTER. Now, you are going to be like, OK!!!, where's the
hibernate option??!! Well, in most xp based systems, using the xp scheme, it isn't there
by default. So, how do we use it??!! When you are in the "turn off computer"
window, press and HOLD SHIFT. You will see standby turn into hibernate. Click it, and
you're done!!!

While there are very good points in using these, I have found a couple issues using them.
On some computers, standby will NOT turn off fans and other components. It's kinda like
the computer is still running, but you get no video!!! If yours shuts down, great!! No
problem. If it doesn't, then use hibernate. NOTE: When you are using standby or
hibernate, it is important to restart once in a while. Now you're like "ok, he tells us to use
these for faster start up, but now he says restart once in a while. HUH???!!!" Yea, I know,
but trust me, this is from personal experience. I run maintenance A LOT on my computer.
I started noticing that every time I used disk cleanup, there always seemed to be a HUGE
amount of files to clean, but it finishes in milliseconds. Anyone that uses disk cleanup
knows it's fast, but not THAT fast!! Basically, disk clean will not "know" to dump the files
because it thinks the system is still on!! That's why I say, restart once in a while.

Cheers!!! G.

Note on standby and hibernate

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