> Is it really necessary to shut down a laptop? I usually just
> close the lid, & if I'm at a client's, by the time I've unplugged
> everything & stuffed it all in its bag, the leds have turned off
> & it's all calm. This also makes for a fast wake-up. YMMV,
> comme d'habitude!
When you do that, your laptop hibernates. Everything in RAM and on the
screen is written to a disk file. The next time the machine is turned
on, startup code finds that file and reloads it. That's why it starts up
faster than otherwise: it's not going through a bootup process.
For some reason, if I hibernate my laptop one day and restart in the
next day, it can take *forever* to restart. Sometimes I have to give up
on it, and press and hold the power button to get it to shut off without
writing a hibernate file, then boot it normally. I have no idea why it
works like this, it shouldn't, but it does.
Barring oddities like that, there shouldn't be any great problems with
hibernating frequently. It means that you're going a *long* time between
reboots. In XP, that should be much less of a problem than in previous
MS operating systems.
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