What happens when my laptop goes into hibernation? What disks are shut off, and what stays on? And also, would anybody recomend doing this rather then a regular shut down?

 

thanks

When the computer hibernates, all data from RAM and current processes is saved to disk. The computer then shuts everything down, like a normal shutdown. When you turn it back on, it loads all that data back into RAM and resumes all of the processes.

 

It's essentially just as good as a normal shutdown.

hmm... then I think I'll start doing that instead of shutting down. There's a faster start-up time.