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post #1 of 11
7/22/05 at 12:56pm
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If you guys are working on your notebooks and you need to go, what do you do? Shut down, hibernate, standby, or just close the LCD?

I usually Shut Down because my boot time is pretty fast and I would rather conserve my battery.
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post #2 of 11
7/22/05 at 1:29pm
I do the same thing you do. I don't like to stand-by or hibernate even though I do keep those options enabled to go on after 20 mins of me doing nothing.
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post #3 of 11
7/22/05 at 1:34pm
I leave mine pluged in and switched on pretty much 24/7 rarely turn it off, screen set to go off after 20mins of inactivity though.
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post #4 of 11
7/22/05 at 1:37pm
I just use stand-by if i know i'm going to be lazy to reboot the laptop when i return
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post #5 of 11
7/22/05 at 1:39pm
Hibernate.
Thankfully Windows XP is very stable and I rarely have to do a reboot to bring stability to my laptop.
I literally go on for 3~4 weeks before I need to reboot and when I do 80% of the time its because I installed a new app that needs to reboot or its time to defragment the drive (I also defrag the startup files- its a feature in Perfect Disk and it requires a reboot).

You should consider hibernate, if for nothing else than the convenience.
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post #6 of 11
7/22/05 at 1:40pm
It depends on how long I'm leaving for. More than several hours I'll shut down. Otherwise, I just shut the lid and I have it set so that it goes to automatic standby when I do.

EDIT: Oh, this is when I'm home plugged in on my desk. Otherwise, if I'm leaving somewhere I take my laptop with me. No leaving it unattended while elsewhere.
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post #7 of 11
7/22/05 at 2:44pm
Standby is probably the fastest solution, although it does drain your battery--but at such a slow rate that it doesn't make it a bad solution. Shutting down drains more battery power, as does hibernate.
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post #8 of 11
7/22/05 at 3:39pm
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Originally Posted by Redmumba
Standby is probably the fastest solution, although it does drain your battery--but at such a slow rate that it doesn't make it a bad solution. Shutting down drains more battery power, as does hibernate.
Really? I'd think shutting down would mean the laptop is using no power.
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post #9 of 11
7/22/05 at 4:51pm
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Originally Posted by chuck232
Really? I'd think shutting down would mean the laptop is using no power.
It takes a lot more power to start it up than you think.
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post #10 of 11
7/22/05 at 5:13pm
Sorry, what I meant to say was, by shutting down you'll also have to start it up again.
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post #11 of 11
7/22/05 at 5:21pm
I usually just close the lid. But if I'm leaving for hours at a time or something, then I just shut down the computer. I never really Hibernate the computer, i see no point in it, so i just have hibernation disabled, and it clears up over a gig of harddrive space too by doing so.
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