Hibernation

[thesonicguy]

Is it safe to use "Hibernation" to turn off my computer?

[Underground_Network]

Probably. I mean if its in a state of hibernation, and you simply turn it off, it shouldn't do anything negative to your computer.

[0=]

It's not possible to turn off your computer if it's hibernating because it is already off. The RAM is saved to the hard drive and the computer shuts down. Upon rebooting Windows resumes by loading the RAM with the saved data.

[jjmcray]

I believe it is perfectly ok to do this. But, one of my friends at school who thinks he knows a lot about computers says this "eats away your hard drive," which I don't see why it would do that... Maybe you should google the pros and cons of using hibernate. I believe it's perfectly fine to use it though.

[0=]

The only issue I can see is you lose however much RAM you have in hard drive space.

[Aηdy]

I've been using it for about 6 years, much quicker loading up windows again, plus everything is where you left it!

[CHC12]

I believe it is perfectly ok to do this. But, one of my friends at school who thinks he knows a lot about computers says this "eats away your hard drive," which I don't see why it would do that... Maybe you should google the pros and cons of using hibernate. I believe it's perfectly fine to use it though.

Hibernation just saves your ram to hiberfil.sys,and when you boot your computer it loads the ram,hiberfil.sys always takes up the same amount of space,about the amount of ram you have,hiberfile.sys is hidden and a system file,so unless you have hidden file and system file set to show it won't appear,so that could be what your friend is talking about.

[Blahages]

Hibernation just saves your ram to hiberfil.sys,and when you boot your computer it loads the ram,hiberfil.sys always takes up the same amount of space,about the amount of ram you have,hiberfile.sys is hidden and a system file,so unless you have hidden file and system file set to show it won't appear,so that could be what your friend is talking about.

QFT.

There's absolutely no reason to believe it's bad. It's not. It just saves the Contents of the RAM to the Hard Drive. Then, it turns the Computer off. When you turn it back on, It loads the Data it Wrote to the HDD from the RAM back to the RAM.

I use it all the time. On my Laptop, and Desktop. It works great.

The Size of the Hibernation file is Static. It maintains its size, based on the Size of your RAM. Like, For example, i have 1GB of RAM in my Laptop. The Hibernation File stays Static at 1GB. It never uses any more or any less space.

A Fresh Reboot is always good once in a while, but if you just want to turn the Computer off, and have it save everything that is currently open in it's current states, use it. It's useful for Laptops, Especially. Hit Hibernate, And Move it to another location, then Boot it back up.