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What's the Difference Between Standby and Hibernate?
In Standby mode, power is saved by shutting down the hard
drives, fans and monitors. These are high power consumption
devices. The computer still uses power to save the data in
memory, so you can restart very quickly (however, if power goes
off while in this state, the data in memory will be lost).
In Hibernate mode, XP saves the data in memory to the hard disk.
Then the power is cut off completely, so this preserves more
battery life. When you restart, it takes a little longer because
the data saved on the disk must be restored to memory. Of
course, this method uses disk space to store the memory data.
If you're using the XP theme view, you might not see the
Hibernate option when you select to shut down the computer.
First try holding down the Shift key to cause the Standby key to
change to Hibernate. If that doesn't work, hibernation might not
be enabled. Go to Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance |
Power Options (or just Power Options in classic view). On the
Hibernation tab, check the box that says Enable hibernation and
click OK. |