RE: Why use "Turn Off Computer"?

The only problem with using hibernate instead of turn off computer is that
there are Terminate Stay Resident programs that continue to run in the
background. If they run continuously, they tend to become unstable and may
eventually cause the computer to crash or slow down. Restart every few days,
but otherwise hibernate will do just fine. You could also go to
start>run>eventvwr and see if it has anything listed in it that would suggest
why your computer is taking so long to start up and shut down. You can also
use start>run>msconfig to turn off things that you aren't using. Just be
careful with this since when some things are turned off, they cause other
things to not work until they are turned back on again.

"curiousgeorge408@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

When I want to shut down my laptop, I have at least 3 ways available
to me.

Of course, I can click on Start>Turn Off Computer. That has several
downsides. First, it requires that I click on Turn Off again.
Second, often XP takes a long time to shut down from that point. The
amount of time seems to vary greatly; I don't know why.
Occassionally, it seems like XP will "never" complete the shutdown.
Really, I simply run out of patience after 90-120 seconds -- although
if a process error occurs during normal shutdown, my experience has
been that the diaglog box (ergo the system) remains up until I click
OK (or some button).

(That is disastrous for a laptop, if I close the cover immediately
after clicking the second Turn Off. It will simply run down the
battery, and the disk is more vulnerable to damage due to movement in
the interim.)

Alternatively, I can Hibernate the system. (On my laptop, I press fn
+F1.) That has the advantage of reducing start-up time when I turn on
the laptop again later. But I am never confident of the start-up
environment. That is, I wonder what side-effects might be carried
over from one start-up to the next.

Finally, I can simply hold the power button down for several seconds.
XP seems to shut down almost immediately after that. I am sure there
might be some reliability issues if I had applications running at the
time. But I have never encountered a problem as long as the system is
quiescent at the time I power off.

Since the last method is the quickest (although starting-up again is
not as fast after Hibernation, of course), is there any reason not to
simply power off the laptop instead of using Turn Off Computer?

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