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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 26 Sep 2008 10:41 am |
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Is it really a good idea to let the computer sleep?
Ours seems groggy after a nap.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 26 Sep 2008 3:12 pm
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I prefer letting mine hibernate, rather than Standby. Certain processes don't wake up when it comes out of standby, whereas everything works as it was when it comes out of hibernation.
If you find that your PC doesn't want to hibernate, and things don't wake up from Standby, try putting the hard drives to sleep after say 2 hours of inactivity.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 26 Sep 2008 3:39 pm
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I'll play the hard drives some of my music.
Thanks Wiz. We'll all hibernate this Winter.
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 2:26 am
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Standby can have varied problems when coming out of standby. Printers do not work, sound does not work, communications does not work, etc. Some of this is driver related.
Standby and Hibernate were originally designed for laptops to conserve power. Standby has never really worked right and as far back as Win98 PC vendors were telling customers not to use it.
I don't use hibernate either as it takes longer to shut down since Windows must "cache" all the open programs and same way when it starts back up it has the extra tasks of opening all the programs again. If I'm going to shut down my PC I just "shut down". I can start whatever programs I want to open afer the PC starts up.
For "standby", I "power off" my monitor and hard drives after 30 minutes, nothing else. This eliminates any potential problems that can be caused by Standby. The time frame delay on when to "power off" is user option. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 3:15 am
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Perhaps I am unclear then.
For purposes of experimentation, how do I get the puter to hibernate?
I see how to stand by; never used it.
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 4:24 am
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 5:43 am
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What came after Millenium and before XP. I'll have to check on that.
Appreciate your help, Jack.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 6:48 am
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What came after Millenium and before XP. I'll have to check on that.
Appreciate your help, Jack. |
Windows XP followed Millennium (M.E.), however, Windows 2000, based on NT 4, was released just before M.E. and continues in use in businesses to this day. The only Microsoft consumer OS in use before M.E. was Windows 98 S.E.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 7:21 am
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It's XP.
Haven't paid much attentin to the OS names since we had ME (Windows Broken).
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 27 Sep 2008 2:11 pm
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FYI:
Windows 3.x through 9.x were all virtual machine graphic user interfaces residing on top of a DOS (DOS = Disk Operating System) operating system. It is the nature of DOS to speak directly to the hardware devices on the motherboard, or connected to it. DOS has limitations it imposes on the hardware and RAM.
Windows M.E. was the first Microsoft OS to be based on virtual drivers only. While many people found hacks to run pure DOS on M.E. computers it wasn't the best thing to do. The computing world was pulling away from command line operating systems in the late 1990's and very few people were learning to use DOS commands any more. One of my then favorite magazines, DOS World, folded around 1999.
Even though Windows M.E. was a flop sales-wise and lacked sufficient driver support, it opened the door for Windows XP, which is not DOS based either. Nonetheless, both W2k and XP computers have a DOS-like utility called the Recovery Console, which does have some of the old DOS commands in it's vocabulary. Professionals and advanced users use the Recovery Console to destroy infected files outside of the Windows environment.
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