XP - shutdown or hibernate

[unrealhippie]

what is the difference? which should you use? and for what purpose?

 

[[ade]]

Shutdown is just your basic close all running processes, turn off all power, byebye pc.

Hibernate is when you want to preserve the current state of working, but without having a fully powered up PC.
If you hibernate, it will remember which programs you had open and basically continue where you left off.

I suppose you use hibernate when you need to quickly go away from the computer for a while, but dont want the hassle of remembering exactly what you were doing when you come back.

 

[urbanfox]

theres no real reason to use hibernate unless u got a laptop.

 

[Dataforce]

Lol, i use hibernate all the time :S

Tis habbit from old computer, every time it restarted, iot went into 16colours and graphics card had to be reinstalled and system restarted again to work, so i used to hibernate so that i wouldn't have to do it.

I used to ahve to restart once a week thio cos it got really slow.

 

[urbanfox]

share thy uneditited matrix pics plzzzzzzz

 

[Gladiator]

I use hibernate alot more as on my pc it boots xp up quicker

 

[urbanfox]

i leave it on, and i just reboot like every 2 or 3 days