Hibernation, standby, sleep and Suspend
Hibernation, standby, sleep and Suspend
I must admit to getting confused by the proliferation of terms describing a timed, progressive powering down within the various OS's. These can vary from laptop to desktop additionally (and for a laptop vary once again depending on whether you are mains or battery powered).
There appears to be considerations for screen, hard-disk, phones and faxes, network and power-supply. I must admit that I have no idea whether the basic premise is to save power, wear and tear, screen phosphor (or all of these). Some are settable, some are automatic and some are selectable/executable.....and forall I know, some are machine-specific.
Of course there are the esoteric options in the BIOS and the options within Windows (various) plus add-on programs and tweakui's that can do things miraculous. With my very modern set-up I still get weird messages on coming out of hibernation.
Anyone have a straightforward Noddy Guide (or a URL for one)?