What happened to standby and hibernate in Windows Vista?
ADVERTISEMENTSWhen I first installed Windows Vista, I was confused when I did not find the features I used to frequently use in Windows XP - standby and hibernate. A quick look in the Windows Help and Support gave me the following answer:
In earlier versions of Windows, standby saves your work to memory and puts your PC into a power-saving state. Hibernate also puts your PC into a power-saving state but saves your work to your hard disk so that you can safely turn off your PC.
Windows Vista combines standby and hibernate into a single power-saving state called sleep.
Putting your PC to sleep offers the following advantages over shutting it down:
- All of your work, including information about the programs that you were using, such as window location and size, is automatically saved to your hard disk.
- When your PC wakes, Windows restores your previous work session within seconds. You don’t need to restart your PC, and then open the files that you were working on.
Sleep is typically the best power-saving state to leave your PC in when you are not using it. Shut down your PC only when you must turn off the power (for example, when you want to add memory or you don’t plan to use the computer for several days).
How to put your PC to sleep
To put your PC to sleep, click the Power button on the Start menu. To wake your PC, press the hardware power button.
That should clear your confusion on why standby and hibernate are missing in Windows Vista.
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Posted on April 2nd, 2007 | Category: General |
Mr.Byte
April 3, 2007 at 1:27 am
Hey John, you still have hibernate in Vista and one more thing, if you have low memory sleep is not advisable as it will take much time to resurrect.
JohnTP
April 3, 2007 at 1:59 am
I have 2GB DDR2 RAM, so no problem for me
Everyday Weekender
April 3, 2007 at 7:31 am
I never really used the hibernate.. so I don’t think i’d miss it
Ashish Mohta
April 3, 2007 at 8:31 am
Its not good to mix both of them.Coming out from Hibernation takes time and If I want to just do a standby I will be forcibly have to sleep….which means I will not be using the sleep feature as I used to do for standby.Better I would just turn the monitor off
Srinivasa Ramanujam
April 3, 2007 at 11:47 am
Sometimes I may run my programs for days by hibernating computer every 8 hrs so as to keep the processor temperature under control. I think hibernate is the best feature so far I had come across in Windows OS.
Mr.Byte
April 4, 2007 at 12:54 am
, Oh! I guess you have a new comp! What’s the configuration and what model is it?
JohnTP
April 4, 2007 at 1:33 am
Mr.Byte- Check here for my new PC’s config
Madhur Kapoor
April 4, 2007 at 4:09 am
Nice tip john , i have never given sleep a try , now i will.
Peddy Cronje
April 17, 2007 at 6:21 am
BE CAREFUL… Occasionaly sleep doesn’t work. Disable the Keyboard Wakeup in Device manager.
Shivaranjan
April 26, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I also prefer not to mix both of them. As sometimes you may end up doing something which you may have not desired.
SwordMouth
May 10, 2007 at 11:18 am
yep, sleep is a better option. atleast you wrote this right, when Amit(labnol) made a mistake on his site recently.
SwordMouth
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praveen
August 3, 2007 at 9:48 am
This was just same as the hibernate , which stores the current configuration of the system onto the hard disk. The only difference i can see vista automatically switches off the pc when it pushed to sleep state.
Gopi Nathan
November 3, 2007 at 2:49 pm
It is not a question of one person using or not using the feature.. A highy useful and popular feature has been missing in the wonderful new Vista. Many internet sites gives solutions… but none of them are clear enough! Vista is a hogwash… Many features we see are superficial and purely confined to display … It is idiotic to see that folders are displayed in more graphic fashion etc .. what is the real use? Are we computer illiterate ?
This rate Vista will find it difficult to get accepted in the corporate as well as home communities…
Robert Mitchell
February 24, 2008 at 2:10 am
When I hit the “sleep” button (set to “Hibernate”) on my HP Pavilion, the computer hibernates, then starts up on its own several seconds to several minutes later.????????
sanjay
March 11, 2008 at 4:06 pm
hibernate is very tidious n time conuming wheres standby is easy way of saving programs
Yang
April 28, 2008 at 8:03 am
Hi,
I’ve accidently deleted my hibernate files during disk cleanup.Then my hibernate option on the start menu is gone.How can I turn thehibernate option back?I,ve try several ways but it told me that i have no permission to enable or disable the feature.But somehow,I should have the permission because I am the admin!How can it be like this?
Gail
July 23, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hello all
I’ve been reading your comments about standby.
I’m looking for a solution to my uploading problem.
Whilst uploading photographs my laptop is going into standby (windows vista 2 ram) This is stopping my uploading sessions, when I come to restarting it doesn’t continue uploading, seems to freeze. I also have 2 whatsits of memory but am getting notices saying low on memory, this is a recent issue (memory).
Hope someone can throw light on this, thanks, Gail
Chris
September 5, 2008 at 7:47 am
I have programs working 24/7, so I never turn off my pc or put it to sleep. Unless you’re leaving home for more than 72 hours or you have to restart to activate updates or something, keep your pc on! Just turn the monitor off manually at night or if you go away. If you have a decent pc and you keep it clean there are no temp. issues. I have not turned my pc off for over 2 months, before that it was a little longer.