It still makes sense to hibernate your computer ">, a feature rarely used by Windows users that has ended up disappearing in Windows 8, at least in appearance. In Windows XP hibernation is among the shutdown options while in Windows 8 it is hidden and there is only the suspension.
It is therefore worth seeing when to use hibernation and when to hibernate the computer on Windows .
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When you shut down your computer using the Shutdown feature, all programs, system services, the operating system are terminated, and then the power to the PC that shuts down is also interrupted.
When it starts up again, the computer starts with a black screen and loads the programs configured to start automatically.
On the other hand, if you put the computer in "sleep" mode, the computer turns off all the energy from its parts except the RAM.
The data of the running programs remain in the RAM before stopping the computer so the RAM memory is not emptied as it happens when the PC is turned off.
This means that the PC must remain connected to a power source in order to be put into suspension.
Hibernation is a different alternative to suspension .
With hibernation, the computer is actually turned off, but first the contents of the RAM memory are copied to the hard disk and saved permanently .
On reboot, the PC loads this data in order to return to the user the same situation he had before hibernating Windows.
Hibernation is useful on laptops with batteries because it allows you not to lose the job you were doing and to be able to pick up where you came from, without consuming energy.
When you turn on your new computer, all the data goes back to RAM and disappears from the hard disk, you will see all the programs and files open, as is also the case in the suspension.
In Windows 10 and windows 8 hibernation has not disappeared, it has only been hidden.
as written in another article, you can activate hibernation in Windows 10 and 8 from the Control Panel, opening the energy saving settings and then going to the link on the left " specify what happens when you press the power button ".
Click on the "Change unavailable settings" link and then enable hibernation.
The option will now appear by right-clicking on the Start menu > Close and disconnect in Windows 8.1.
Microsoft's choice to hide hibernation in Windows 8 is due to the fact that shutting down Windows 8 is almost an hibernation.
In another article, we explained what fast boot means in Windows 8 and about reboot problems .
Difference between hibernation and hibernation from a computer performance point of view .
Suspending or hibernating the computer, until a few years ago and before Windows 8 also meant turning on the computer faster.
Meanwhile, let's say that a computer that becomes active after hibernation or suspension will be just as fast (or slow) as it was when it was put to sleep.
The difference is in the boot process.
A computer that wakes up from hibernation loads data from RAM which is much faster than a hard drive or even SSD solid state drive.
After hibernation, the computer restarts in an instant.
Restarting the PC from hibernation instead requires the computer to recover data from the hard disk so it takes much longer, even more than restarting the PC from scratch.
The only difference between a complete restart and a hibernation restart is that with the latter you will have the PC with the programs already open, which, in certain cases of work or study, can be very useful.
Hibernation, which may seem unnecessary nowadays, but still works well in laptops, when you have to disconnect the power to save battery and not lose the work you are doing in the case of breaks.
The suspension, on the other hand, works well on stationary PCs, to quickly turn them back on, and can be useful on laptops for very short breaks, taking into account that, unlike hibernation, the suspension consumes battery and, after some time, it runs out.
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