Hi Folks.
  I normally put my laptop in hibernation every time i dont want to use the system. But I had a friend that was trying to convince me that Hibernation normally cause problem to laptop board. But he didnt give genuine reason.

But i want to know may be is true or not.
so any body with any idea should contribute pls.

hibernation will cause no problems whatsoever - however, if you are using windows xp sp2, and have more than 1gb of ram, your system's hiberation will be hit and miss unless you down load an update

Hibernation is something useful only when you have the PC plugged into the wall continually. For a laptop, hibernation is something that I only use when I have no other options in order to not lose work.

The major downside to hibernation is that it consumes your battery and reduces the battery life. Overusing the feature won’t quickly eat away at your battery, but do it every day of the week and you’ll soon discover your PC isn’t quite pulling the amount of time it could before.

Well one thing is sure it will reduce the life span of your battery.

So do it only when its necessary otherwise shutdown please!!

The major downside to hibernation is that it consumes your battery and reduces the battery life. Overusing the feature won’t quickly eat away at your battery, but do it every day of the week and you’ll soon discover your PC isn’t quite pulling the amount of time it could before.

Well one thing is sure it will reduce the life span of your battery.

it seems uve mistaken HIBERNATION with SLEEP(stand-by in XP).

while putting ur computer to sleep consumes VERY little of ur battery, HIBERNATION consumes the same amount of ur battery as shutting down would, which is practically NOTHING!

correct me if i'm wrong

walex the only disdvantage of hibernation is that it does not reload your system's drivers. Also it's not advisable to hibernate when you are running heavy applications. This is because an error could occur in the application especially if it's one that has many threads. There's nothing like shorting your battery and crazy stuff like that. I only shutdown when I install a software or driver and things like that. Standby is more preferable to me though.

ritchboy:

it seems uve mistaken HIBERNATION with SLEEP(stand-by in XP).

while putting your computer to sleep consumes VERY little of your battery, HIBERNATION consumes the same amount of your battery as shutting down would, which is practically NOTHING!

correct me if i'm wrong

Thats it nothing more

one major disadvantage of hibernation is it eats up system memory space, trying to save ur page file,

so if you see ur harddisk size shrink, your hibernation pagefile is eating it,

thats the only one i know, as for eating up battery life, nope hibernation is just the same as shutting down, but with a cutting edge of allowing you store your current processes at that moment,

as for the driver issues, update ur OS, and your hibernation would be doing fine,

VBR

Hibernation does eat up space, i use it every day.

Is there way you can clean the hibernation file and start over?

@platinumnk

you could clean it up by using your disk cleanup tool and look out for hibernation page file, thats all

But they said if i clean it then the hibernation would deactivate, and I dont want it to. so what do i do?

I just wanna clean it, then start doing the hibernation again

first off , hibernation eats up 3gb of space . thats about it. it does not increrase or decrease, and does not require cleaning. the hibernation file is a syetm file that reside in the root of dive c and is named hyberfil.sys . there are some utilities that can delete it.

so if you see your harddisk size shrink, your hibernation pagefile is eating it,

the real eater of hard disk space is restore points. you need to set the maximum pace allocated to syetm restore. in xp and windos 7, this is straightforward, but in vista, it has to be done from the cmd window

the other eater is crap temporary files. get ccleaner for those

oyb:

first off , hibernation eats up 3gb of space . thats about it. it does not increrase or decrease, and does not require cleaning. the hibernation file is a syetm file that reside in the root of dive c and is named hyberfil.sys . there are some utilities that can delete it.

the real eater of hard disk space is restore points. you need to set the maximum pace allocated to syetm restore. in xp and windos 7, this is straightforward, but in vista, it has to be done from the cmd window

the other eater is crap temporary files. get ccleaner for those

Thank God there are some sensible computer operators in nairaland

The disadvantage of hibernating your laptop or pc is that it uses lots of disk space and suystem resources. it can however, be disabled and re-enabled. hope I was helpful, Deji sunday

system restore takes 12% of the hard drive space. I"ll rather sacrifice that for system restore instead for hibernate, Deji sunday

That sure depends on how much hard drive and ram you are using. I did say it takes 1% of my disk space.

putting your system to sleep or hibernation does nothing to your system negatively.i put mine on hibernate always.take it from an IT expert.sleep only consumes your battery cos your system is not totally off.your ram is still supplied a small amount of electricity to maintain your work while in hibernation,your system is completely off and does absolutely nothing to your battery.your work or system state is saved in your harddrive.system designers that put those features there know what they are doing jare.no fear!

certainly

Hibernation does not damage your p.c. it has no adverse effect on a p.c. The only issue is that the hibernate function is mounted on about 2GB of your hard disk, it does not even run on your RAM, when you put your p.c. to hibernation, it is like telling the P.C. to shut down but save what it is doing at the moment. Though sometimes your P.C. might respond slowly after a long while of hibernation so it is advisable to shut down once in a while or at best restart a system after it has come out of hibernation. On the issue of hard disk wasting due to restore point storage of hibernation you canget some software that will help with deleting restore points after use. i use Tuneup 2009 for this.and it is very nice it even does some other other system maintanence for me.

during a system clean up to free hard disk space, i somehow deleted my hibernate files and since then i have not been able to hibernate. pls how do i restore this feature?

Thanks.

WOW!!! thanks for letting me know about hibernate because I am a culprit(maybe y my com is slowing down ). Is sleep safe or it's best to log off?. Below is what my comp. say about sleep and hybernate, .wow mon!

hibernate - saves your session and turns off the computer. when you turn on the computer, windows restores your session

sleep: keep your session in memory and puts the computer in low power state so that you can quickly resume working

so how do i hibernate my laptop, supposing i am a novice with system application

Epi, where have u been, i was hoping to catch you on fb one of these dayz!

Hi y'all. To restore your hibernate: go to dos.

Step 1:
If windows xp then
use logo key + R || task manager->run || start -> programs ->Accessories->command prompt

else if windows vista

Start ->programs->accessories -> right click on command prompt and open wit elevated privileges

end if


Step 2:

if windows xp then

powercfg /hibernate: on

else if windows vista then

powercfg /hibernate on

else

try both commands

end if

. . . . .have a nice day. . . .

all this technical jargons >>> all b'cos of
hibernation >>> make una free d thin'

There is no big deal in hibernation.it only put ur system on a low power state so that it doesn't consume much power n it stores d work u ar doing on ur system temporarily so dat wen u resume it u see d page u ar previously on b4 hibernatin.it is nt a shut down.to log off completely jst shut down don't use hibernate as it'll consume ur battery power.

hibernation does not cause any harm to system

There's absolutely nothing wrong with hibernation. All it basically does is write your current session on your hard disk and then shuts your system down. COMPLETELY. So next time u boot up windows loads up that session for u immediately. It hence doesnt place any demand on your battery like sleep or standby.

Enough experts on nairaland

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Epi, where have u been, i was hoping to catch you on fb one of these dayz!

Hi y'all. To restore your hibernate: go to dos.

Step 1:
If windows xp then
use logo key + R || task manager->run || start -> programs ->Accessories->command prompt

else if windows vista

Start ->programs->accessories -> right click on command prompt and open wit elevated privileges

end if


Step 2:

if windows xp then

powercfg /hibernate: on

else if windows vista then

powercfg /hibernate on

else

try both commands

end if

. . . . .have a nice day. . . .

Please I have similar problem but am using Vista. How do I restore my Hibernation feature back?

@oyb

u can actualy increase ur allocation for the hibernation page file, as for windows update, it does not take that much, but it doesnt and it is worth the sacrifice,

hibernating is good, but disable it to use the space occupied by the hibernation page file,

hibernation does not touch your battery life, try it by removing your battery after use. nothing will change. but the guy that said some'in about those with their ram higher than 1gb. which update is that?

No disadvantage except extracting at least 1 - 2Gb of space from your hard drive for Page File use. (That's not your headache unless your hard drive is less than 5Gb  )