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Stupid question? Not when you can hibernate it. Hibernating your computer saves the last position of which your computer was in so that you can continue from where you left off. Apart from that, it effectively switches off and turns on your computer faster than if you shutdown your computer.

To be able to hibernate your computer your system drive (by default drive ‘C’) should contain at least 1GB of free space. Though only 250MB is required for hibernation, leaving your system drive with less than 1GB of free space is not advisable, vacant space in the system drive is used for various other purposes, mainly for temporary storage, for the page file, etc.

While hibernating may have the advantage of loading and turning off your computer faster it does have some drawbacks. In some situations, hibernating may be slower than shutting down your computer; in this case it is advisable to use the normal ‘turn off your computer’ method. Also sometimes once you switch on your computer after hibernating it, it may be slower than usual until you log off and come back on. These problems though won’t be experienced if you have a good RAM.

Try hibernating your pc right now and decide which is better.

Don’t know how to hibernate?

• First go to the display properties (desktop>right click>properties)
  
  
• Go to Screensaver>Power>Hibernate>Check if enable hibernation is ticked.
  
  
• Go to Start>Turn off your computer and press ‘H’ or hold Shift>and ‘stand by’ would turn to ‘Hibernate’, or if you are using the classic style just select hibernate from the pull down menu.

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