Difference Between Standby & Hibernate

[ambientscape]

I would like to know the difference between this, cause I don;t see any difference. Would you guys tell me....about this and the effect to the computer?

Thanks

[LumberJack]

Hibernate will copy the state of the machine to the hard disk and shut down the machine. When you rebbot your instance of Windows is reloaded where you left off.

Stand By - is a kind of sleep. Where the screen turns off and HD/ shuts down but the machine is still on and requires power. You should also see the small moon on your TP light up when you are in standby mode.

Hope that helps.

LJ

[cytexone]

Also, I find with hibernate, your HD password is always prompted, which adds a nice layer of security - effectively locking your hard drive. I believe if someone were to take the HD out, they would not be able to access the data on the HD unless they knew this password (that only you should know).

With standby, which I used for a long time, there is no HD password and it loads right into windows logon screen. This can be easily bypassed via ntpasswd crack programs and the like.

HTH,

Andy
CYTEXONE

[cytexone]

Also, if you haven't, set and HD and Power On Password in your BIOS to enable the password feature that I mentioned above.

Andy
CYTEXONE