"Bill P" <BillP@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>What are the pros and cons of using Hibernate instead of Shut Down in
>Windows XP
Hibernating causes the computer to dump the contents of RAM, video
memory, whatever to a file on the disk, then turn off the hardware.
When the computer is restarted, that file is found and loaded and your
previous session resumes. "Shut Down" turns the machine off without
saving status. So when you restart the OS is loaded from scratch.
So if you keep hibernating it's like having an extremely long session.
XP can go much longer between reboots than previous MS systems, but
(IMHO) it's a good idea to shut it down and start from scratch once in
awhile, so that it can clear its mind.
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Tim Slattery
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