Hibernation is a a battery-saving scheme. It's been very poorly
implemented over the years, and causes problems such as you described in
many computers. It also uses a large amount of disk space, but that's
not particularly important with today's large disks.
In Control Panel/Power Options, you can design your own power saving
scheme, or just use Window's defaults for turning off various items such
as the hard disk and monitor. In my case, I have the monitor set to turn
off after two hours, and "never" for hard drives and standby.
Hard disk resume and recovery from standby can be problematic as well.
It won't hurt to try these features, but they don't work well on my machine.
Vista allegedly handles these matters much better, but I'll believe it
when I see it.
Hiberfil.sys will be automatically created when you enable hibernate.
It's just a copy of RAM memory, unique to your computer.
System standby and Hibernation save similar amounts of energy.
Harold B. wrote:
Hugh, my sense is that you would suggest not using the Hiberfil.sys file and
therefore not using the hibernation found in Windows. By setting "up a new
power scheme" what are you suggesting? What I mean is, what new power scheme
are you pointing to? And would this new power scheme include some form of
hibernation? If not, is there one you woud use instead of the hibernation? I
ask that because it seems to me (and I could be wrong) that overnight, for
example, hibernation is better than using a screensaver (as you say, power
supply is preserved), and better than a complete shutdown (or would you say a
complete shutdown is better when not used for let's say 12 hours)?
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