[CJS23]

Originally Posted by Rollin' Rog

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Also keep in mind that when you hibernate, as opposed to "sleep" you are storing the entire contents of system memory on the hard disk, do you really need to do this? -- the amount of power saved is probably minimal.

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Rolling' Rog - Surely MORE power is saved when using Hibernate as the whole system can be powered down whereas Standby and Sleep are still draining current as they await being awakened?

[Rollin' Rog]

Yes, I didn't mean to imply otherwise, but it can't be much.

I've used a power meter on my Acer/Vista system and it consumes roughly about 100 watts at the desktop and 2 - 3 watts in sleep.

By contrast my old Dell Desktop uses about the same at the Desktop and about 75 - 80 watts in "sleep".

I don't recall the figure for my old laptop, but I think it too was under 5 watts for sleep and about 50 booted using an adapter.

The moral here is that power management has come a long way.

Of course it's possible you might want to use Hibernate on a laptop if you are going to be away from a power source for many hours, but otherwise I would really see little need for it.

Should be in everyone's gizmo box, lol:

http://www.amazon.com/P3-Internation...8386379&sr=8-1

[CJS23]

Lol - I should get one of those.

I bet you've saved some energy since you've been using it? lol

[Rollin' Rog]

Yeah, I just shut the old XP Dell Desktop down now, the "sleep" feature isn't worth it

But the Vista system spends most of its time sleeping

[CJS23]

Lol

I'm on Windows 7 RC x64 Ultimate at moment and loving it!!

Definitely better than Vista x64 Ultimate (last OS) - will be buying Windows 7 once RC expires

[SnyderXC]

Yep, this is fixed by stopping the Hard Disk Shutdown. Lovin' my Win7 RC! I'll be really disappointed when it's shut down, don't have the money to buy it. Actually though, the real reason I want Hibernate is that I don't want my computer to crash if we lose power (Very ironic, :-) ) But, maybe I should look at Win7's "Hybrid" sleep feature, that stores to the RAM and back ups to the Hard disk to avoid problems!

[CJS23]

Originally Posted by SnyderXC

Yep, this is fixed by stopping the Hard Disk Shutdown. Lovin' my Win7 RC! I'll be really disappointed when it's shut down, don't have the money to buy it. Actually though, the real reason I want Hibernate is that I don't want my computer to crash if we lose power (Very ironic, :-) ) But, maybe I should look at Win7's "Hybrid" sleep feature, that stores to the RAM and back ups to the Hard disk to avoid problems!

According to Microsoft RC will reboot every 2 hours after July 01 - if that's the case and that's ALL it does - may be able to run it on - as long as within EULA of course

[SnyderXC]

I heard that starting in March, it will shut down every two hours (at which point, I will promptly schedule a task to run a "Shutdown -a" abort command every two hours, but in June, it's supposed to just die and not work.

Microsoft.com

Remember expiration dates: Windows 7 Beta and Windows 7 RC 
each have expiration dates. When the software expires, your PC will
 completely stop working, and it may be difficult to recover your files.
 (This is very different from the persistent reminders you'll experience if 
you don't activate the operating system.) For Windows 7 Beta, the 
expiration date is August 1, 2009. For Windows 7 RC, the expiration 
date is June 1, 2010. So if you are running Windows 7 Beta, you need 
to upgrade to Windows 7 RC before August 1, 2009. Then, you'll either
 need to upgrade to the final, released version of Windows 7 before 
June 1, 2010, or install a prior version of Windows. (For more about
 installing Windows, see the Installation Instructions.)

[CJS23]

I'm on Windows 7 RC x64 Ultimate but thought it was not possible to upgrade to Full Version?

Thought a clean install was necessary?

[CJS23]

Plus I thought it was a full working version until July 01 2010 ? My whole Business runs on it.

I need to check this out . . . .

[SnyderXC]

I just had to change the status back to "unsolved" I've found that the computer has started crashing again. I decided that the cause is that for some unexplained reason, Windows 7 (or the program itself) keeps changing the Hard Disk power off from "Never" to "3 Minutes". Does anyone know a solution or should I go back to the program creator and ask?