Do you use Hibernation in Windows 7?

[Creer]

A small poll about hibernation feature, do you use it?

 

[mickey megabyte]

nah - i like my pc to be off when i'm not using it - and 7 boots so quickly.

 

[CIS]

No, I still don't trust it. I tried it the other day and it still seemed to cause some lag after restarting. I'm all for clean boots post-XP.

 

[Teerex]

My notebook hibernates both after an idle period and when its battery is on its last legs.

I've never had a single problem with it. Not even on Vista.

 

[H2SO4]

A small poll about hibernation feature, do you use it?

Sure, why not? It's practically indispensable for laptops that travel around in bags which inhibit airflow.

 

[Victek]

A small poll about hibernation feature, do you use it?

Sure, why not? It's practically indispensable for laptops that travel around in bags which inhibit airflow.

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I'm using hibernation with Windows 7 RC1 x64 on my desktop and it works fine. Since Windows 7 boots pretty fast it doesn't make as much difference (as Vista), but it's still nice. How well it works seems to depend on the BIOS. I had a PC running Vista that hibernated well except for the USB ports. They didn't work initially after waking the computer, but eventually woke up after a few minutes.

 

[BFG]

Nope, one of the first things I do is

powecfg -h off

 

[H2SO4]

A small poll about hibernation feature, do you use it?

Sure, why not? It's practically indispensable for laptops that travel around in bags which inhibit airflow.

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I'm using hibernation with Windows 7 RC1 x64 on my desktop and it works fine. Since Windows 7 boots pretty fast it doesn't make as much difference (as Vista), but it's still nice. How well it works seems to depend on the BIOS. I had a PC running Vista that hibernated well except for the USB ports. They didn't work initially after waking the computer, but eventually woke up after a few minutes.

Virtually all hibernation issues are BIOS or driver related. Hibernation itself is perfectly fine.

I tend to use it more as a means of saving state (47 apps open doing various things) than as a means of speeding up the boot process. Those few seconds either way hardly matter, but what does matter is getting right back to where you left off in Word, Excel, AutoCAD...

 

[Kari]

As the distinguished geek Sulfuric Acid here above told, hibernation is practical to save the state of the computer. That's why I use it normally always, turning computer off only when I know in advance it's going to a while before I have to turn it on again.

I like to use it.

Kari

 

[Creer]

(...)That's why I use it normally always, turning it off only when I know in advance it's going to a while before I have to turn it on again.

I like to use it.

Kari

So I understand that then you do not use command "powercfg -h off" but you just use for example sleep mode (S3 suspend to ram)?

 

[Kari]

(...)That's why I use it normally always, turning it off only when I know in advance it's going to a while before I have to turn it on again.

I like to use it.

Kari

So I understand that then you do not use command "powercfg -h off" but you just use for example sleep mode (S3 suspend to ram)?

I had a typo there which changed the whole meaning of the sentence. It should read "... turning computer off only when I know..."

I edited my post and fixed the typo. Sorry

Kari

 

[pparks1]

I don't use hibernation with Windows 7 as I am only running Windows 7 on my desktop..and I disable hibernation on my desktop. My laptop is running Vista and Ubuntu...and I do hibernate on my laptop.

 

[bjrichus]

I always hibernate my win 7 laptop. Wake up is less than a couple of seconds and it is perfect for keeping the state of it intact as I go from work to home and back to work the next day.

Not had a problem with it (using 7600 RTM 'pro' of 7 on a Dell).

 

[Creer]

(...)That's why I use it normally always, turning it off only when I know in advance it's going to a while before I have to turn it on again.

I like to use it.

Kari

So I understand that then you do not use command "powercfg -h off" but you just use for example sleep mode (S3 suspend to ram)?

I had a typo there which changed the whole meaning of the sentence. It should read "... turning computer off only when I know..."

I edited my post and fixed the typo. Sorry

Kari

Got it

Have you guys disabled (turn off) Hybrid Sleep?

 

[garysgold]

I use sleep (hybrid is off) on my desktop unless it will be hours before I get back to it, in which case I shut it down.

 

[zrtom]

I couldn't live without hibernation on my laptops. Mainly for saving state like others have mentioned and partly in lieu of using sleep when I'm not sure when I'm going to resume using it. Keeping the RAM powered in S3 sleep drains my battery at 1/2 to 1%/hr so if I put it on sleep and don't get back to it until the next day, the battery can be down 15-20%. Hibernate (and it's 10 second resume) avoids any sleep-related battery drain for me.

I sometimes use hibernate on my main desktop if I have a lot of things open. Despite having more than 4GB of RAM (it has 8GB) it will hibernate using the "On" button and setting advanced power options to hibernate when the "On" button is pressed.

Sleep and hibernate work flawlessly for me in W7 (as they did in Vista).

 

[Creer]

OK, I fully agree with using hibernation on laptops because of no battery using against to S3 which consume few Watts.
But what is the real reason why people use hibernation instead of sleep mode (S3) on their desktop machines.
I mean S3 is much more quicker than hibernation.

BTW. I use now Windows 7 RC build 7100, and I noticed that when I resume from hibernation state then after ~2-4minutes my PC hang on - only 'hard' reset helps ;/
I hope I don't find this issue in RTM version which I've ordered.

 

[H2SO4]

But what is the real reason why people use hibernation instead of sleep mode (S3) on their desktop machines.

A "sleeping" laptop could potentially overhead and die while ensconsed in its warm, airtight laptop bag during a long flight. Personally, that is my primary use for hibernation - I like knowing that the laptop is entirely OFF when it's sitting in its bag, and yet I can get back to whatever I was doing as soon as the machine powers up again.

BTW. I use now Windows 7 RC build 7100, and I noticed that when I resume from hibernation state then after ~2-4minutes my PC hang on - only 'hard' reset helps ;/
I hope I don't find this issue in RTM version which I've ordered.

Then the thread is asking the wrong question, with all respect.

Instead of "do you use it?", the real question becomes "why does my machine have a problem with it?".

As a suggestion, make sure the BIOS and drivers are all up to date. Power state transition problems are almost always caused by issues with the BIOS or bugs in kernel-mode drivers.

 

[nate42nd]

powercfg -h off

On the list of the first things I do when installing.