micky
2020-10-14 19:23:16 UTC
Another question that's mostly curiosity but has some practical value.
I used my current laptop, with windows 7, when I was out of town for 2
months in 2018 and 3 months in 2019, and I set it to hibernate when I
closed the lid, and it did that, because t he next day it was off and
the startup message was something like Resuming Windows.
I have Hibernate set for closing the lid, but in the Start menu,
hibernate is not one of the choices. ######################
That's strange in itself.
But it's stil listed in Power Options / Advanced Settings for the lid.
Yet when I close the lid, like last night, the screen goes black (I
opened it to look), the harddrive light blinks for a long time (8 gigs
RAM, most of it in use) and then the power light goes off. It's
hibernated, right?
But the next day, like today, the screen is lit up and everything is the
way it ws before I tried to hibernate. And checking mail reception, I
didn't go more t han an hour all night without getting mail. I got
mail at 3:26AM, went to bed at 4:00, and got mail again at 5:13, 6:13,
6:45. 7:13 etc.
Did opening the lid after hibernating started somehow undo hibernating.
As an aside, it was up to 201 when I got to it today, but dropped down
to 170 shortly after. It's not been that low after being hot for all the
time I've been wat ching. Now it's 179 to 183, which is also low for
the last couple weeks (ever since I vacuumed it :-) )
The new computer is scheduled to come tomorrow, Thursday, but otoh UPS
hasnt' said a word about it since Saturday at 3AM when it left Cerritos
Callifornia. Had it r eally been on the truck for 4.5 days? They used
to update tracking every 12 or 24 hours or so, giving a new city a
package was in. Maybe mine is on an express truck.
I used my current laptop, with windows 7, when I was out of town for 2
months in 2018 and 3 months in 2019, and I set it to hibernate when I
closed the lid, and it did that, because t he next day it was off and
the startup message was something like Resuming Windows.
I have Hibernate set for closing the lid, but in the Start menu,
hibernate is not one of the choices. ######################
That's strange in itself.
But it's stil listed in Power Options / Advanced Settings for the lid.
Yet when I close the lid, like last night, the screen goes black (I
opened it to look), the harddrive light blinks for a long time (8 gigs
RAM, most of it in use) and then the power light goes off. It's
hibernated, right?
But the next day, like today, the screen is lit up and everything is the
way it ws before I tried to hibernate. And checking mail reception, I
didn't go more t han an hour all night without getting mail. I got
mail at 3:26AM, went to bed at 4:00, and got mail again at 5:13, 6:13,
6:45. 7:13 etc.
Did opening the lid after hibernating started somehow undo hibernating.
As an aside, it was up to 201 when I got to it today, but dropped down
to 170 shortly after. It's not been that low after being hot for all the
time I've been wat ching. Now it's 179 to 183, which is also low for
the last couple weeks (ever since I vacuumed it :-) )
The new computer is scheduled to come tomorrow, Thursday, but otoh UPS
hasnt' said a word about it since Saturday at 3AM when it left Cerritos
Callifornia. Had it r eally been on the truck for 4.5 days? They used
to update tracking every 12 or 24 hours or so, giving a new city a
package was in. Maybe mine is on an express truck.