Comments on: Sleep vs. Hibernate vs. Shutdown in Windows Vista http://www.janleow.com/life/windows-vista-sleep-hibernate-shutdown-suspend.html My blogs about life in general, personal interests reviews of computer devices, photography, wordpress websites, make your own web site, etc. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: tosh http://www.janleow.com/life/windows-vista-sleep-hibernate-shutdown-suspend.html/comment-page-1#comment-3997 tosh Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:10:28 +0000 http://www.janleow.com/life/windows-vista-sleep-hibernate-shutdown-suspend.html#comment-3997 hybrid was actually designed for desktops in case the power goes down while the computer is suspened so you don't lose all your information..... laptops have effectively their own ups built in and so do not need this system. hybrid was actually designed for desktops in case the power goes down while the computer is suspened so you don’t lose all your information….. laptops have effectively their own ups built in and so do not need this system.

]]> By: Jay T http://www.janleow.com/life/windows-vista-sleep-hibernate-shutdown-suspend.html/comment-page-1#comment-3964 Jay T Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:53:46 +0000 http://www.janleow.com/life/windows-vista-sleep-hibernate-shutdown-suspend.html#comment-3964 Hyvrid Mode isnt normally available on desktops as it was designed more with laptops in mind. I believe that Hybrid Mode is available on some Dell higher end desktops, but on most other desktops and most desktops of other makes the mode is simply sleep mode. It is also worth while to note that if you are trying to use Hybrid Mode on either a compatable desktop or your laptop then you may have to enable hibernation by doing the following 1: Click on your start menu button and in the search box type cmd and then right click the cmd and left click run as admin 2: type in the following to the cmd line powercfg -h on 3: Press your Enter or Return Button 4: Close the cmd You should now have enabled hibernation on your computer (if it was not already enabled) and you will need hibernation enabled before you can use the sleep feature of Hybrid Mode. You can test this by pressing the sleep button on your keyboad (if you have a multimedia keyboard) --- (your sleep button should look like either a half moon or a half moon with a little star above right.) If you dont have a multimedia keyboard then you can still test your settings by doing the following 1: Open your start menu 2: Locate the arrow that should be next to the lock sign on the sleep/lock menu bar at teh bottom right of your start menu screen 3: If you see the sleep comman in the extended menu (accessed via clicking on the arrow as described above) then your computer should now be able to sleep using Hybrid Mode. You can check this by clicking the before mentioned sleep command You can also put check that hibernation has been enbaled on your computer by doing the following 1: Open your start menu 2: Locate the first button on your sleep/lock menu (located at the bottom right of your start menu) 3: Click the before mentioned button If you have tried any method mentioned above and your computer goes into sleep then congratulations. If none of these methods work then I would like to apologise but without seeing your computer I would not be able to give any further desription ----NOTE---- All the above is descibed in general for every computer and may not work on your indervidual computer system or laptop system and I accept no responsiblity for eithe this or any errors that arise by you following any of the steps that I have outlined above. Thanks Jay Hyvrid Mode isnt normally available on desktops as it was designed more with laptops in mind. I believe that Hybrid Mode is available on some Dell higher end desktops, but on most other desktops and most desktops of other makes the mode is simply sleep mode.

It is also worth while to note that if you are trying to use Hybrid Mode on either a compatable desktop or your laptop then you may have to enable hibernation by doing the following

1: Click on your start menu button and in the search box type cmd and then right click the cmd and left click run as admin
2: type in the following to the cmd line powercfg -h on
3: Press your Enter or Return Button
4: Close the cmd

You should now have enabled hibernation on your computer (if it was not already enabled) and you will need hibernation enabled before you can use the sleep feature of Hybrid Mode. You can test this by pressing the sleep button on your keyboad (if you have a multimedia keyboard) — (your sleep button should look like either a half moon or a half moon with a little star above right.) If you dont have a multimedia keyboard then you can still test your settings by doing the following

1: Open your start menu
2: Locate the arrow that should be next to the lock sign on the sleep/lock menu bar at teh bottom right of your start menu screen
3: If you see the sleep comman in the extended menu (accessed via clicking on the arrow as described above) then your computer should now be able to sleep using Hybrid Mode. You can check this by clicking the before mentioned sleep command

You can also put check that hibernation has been enbaled on your computer by doing the following

1: Open your start menu
2: Locate the first button on your sleep/lock menu (located at the bottom right of your start menu)
3: Click the before mentioned button

If you have tried any method mentioned above and your computer goes into sleep then congratulations. If none of these methods work then I would like to apologise but without seeing your computer I would not be able to give any further desription

—-NOTE—-
All the above is descibed in general for every computer and may not work on your indervidual computer system or laptop system and I accept no responsiblity for eithe this or any errors that arise by you following any of the steps that I have outlined above.

Thanks
Jay

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