Sleep mode vs. Shutting down?

[blαh2355]

Which is better, sometimes I don't feel like shutting down my whole computer since it would be more convenient for me to get back on later. Also, will leaving it in sleep mode overnight bad?

[Samo]

Leave it off. Screw your convenience. I shit all over your convenience. Leaving it on would be louder, giving you worse sleep, it's not good for your hardware and your power bill will slightly rise change.
Don't waste it just for a faster start up.

[Pryvisee]

Leave it off. Screw your convenience. I shit all over your convenience. Leaving it on would be louder, giving you worse sleep, it's not good for your hardware and your power bill will slightly rise change.
Don't waste it just for a faster start up.

He's saying sleep mode.. As in, sleeping his computer. The computer doesn't stay running.

Anyways, I would just consider Hibernating it. If you have 2GB on your HDD, then do that. It's using a lot less power than sleep mode, and you can get back on just as fast.

[blαh2355]

He's saying sleep mode.. As in, sleeping his computer. The computer doesn't stay running.

Anyways, I would just consider Hibernating it. If you have 2GB on your HDD, then do that. It's using a lot less power than sleep mode, and you can get back on just as fast.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that feature after Windows 7.

[ursus]

Sleep mode wakes up a lot faster. For me, I just tap a key and my computer comes back on.

[Peetah]

Sleep mode is fine. It saves to your ram.
Be sure to fully shut it down once in awhile though.

As long as its not hibernate, stay away from that.
It saves to your hard drive so you don't lose "data" during a power failure.
Its slower and a waste of space.

[Pryvisee]

Sleep mode is fine. It saves to your ram.
Be sure to fully shut it down once in awhile though.

As long as its not hibernate, stay away from that.
It saves to your hard drive so you don't lose "data" during a power failure.
Its slower and a waste of space.

It's just me though. For some odd reason, my computer turns back on if it's in S1, or S2. Hibernate is the only state that my comp can stay off in.

Also, with Hibernating, everything is powered off and what was in the RAM is transferred on the hard drive which you can boot later. How is this bad? I've also only seen the file to be 2GB max.

[Peetah]

Yeh tweak that abit.
I wouldn't say bad. It not bad at all.
Its just slower for sure.

Also, to fix the wake up problem,
Go to Devices and Printers.
Enter the Properties of your mouse.
Hardware tab and Double click HID-compliant mouse.
Power management tab.
Uncheck Allow this device to wake up computer.

Im assuming this cause the slightest movement would turn the computer back on.
You can do the same for keyboard, but pressing any key is convenient.

[blαh2355]

Well I can use Sleep mode if I need to use the computer later in the day and use Hibernate for longer term like overnight. Thank you all