subject: Keep Laptop in Perfect Work Situation [print this page] When you are leaving for a while, what will you do with your laptop computer, just leave it alone or turn it to the sleep mode? I often leave my HP DV2000 AC Adapter in working condition. In fact, take advantage of those models of the system, we can not only save power consumption, also can use the shortest possible time to get the system back to normal working condition.
Standby The system switches to this mode, besides memory, the computers other equipment will turn down except the power supply is on. At this point, if you want to restore, you can return to standby before the state. This model is not entirely consume, so if power in standby mode, then the next can only reboot, so standby before the unsaved data will be lost. But this model is the fastest speed of recovery; generally this can be resumed within five seconds.
Hibernate The system comes to this mode, the system will automatically dump all the data in memory in a hibernation file on the hard disk. And then cut off the supply of all equipment. As at the recovery time, the system will hibernate files from the hard disk content directly into memory, and return to the state before sleep. This model do not consume, so afraid of sleep abnormalities after the power supply, but at the cost and the need for a physical memory as the size of hard disk space The slow recovery of this model, depending on memory size and disk speed, generally require about 1 minute or even longer.
Sleep the new mode that windows vista brought in combines the advantages of the standby and hibernate modes. The system will dump all data in memory on the hard disk hibernation file, and then close all the equipment in addition to memory outside the power supply, so that data in memory is still maintained. But in any case, this model will not lead to data loss.
So we can take advantage of this new feature. After all, to resume from sleep mode, the speed is much faster than start from scratch.
