How nice it would be if shutting down the computer was as simple as turning off the radio. But in this era of extreme abundance of technology, we have too many choices, and the more choices we have, the greater the cost of learning Xi.
Whenever the work is over, when you click the shutdown button in the computer's start menu, several options will appear, usually including:Standby, sleep, hibernate, shut down, restart(Win7 is not turned on standby by default, Win10 and Win11 are not turned on by default and hibernated). Let's talk about the differences between each of these options:
SleepSleep (standby is similar).
The word sleep is a bit misleading, but in fact, the computer does not fall asleep, it is only equivalent to a person at work at noonTake a nap, confused, but also semi-conscious, because there is something in the head, once there is a situation, you can immediately get up and go to work. Technically, computerMemoryYou're still working, the document you've been editing is still in memory, and as soon as you hit the keyboard or click the mouse, the computer will immediately light up and show you the interface you used before you can continue working.
Unlike hard drives, memory only has content when there is power, and once there is no power, it is all emptied. The hard drive, on the other hand, will store the contents forever, with or without power, unless you actively delete the files. Therefore, sleep requires the computer to be powered on all the time, desktops need power to be continuously powered, and laptops only need to have a battery charge. The amount of power used by the computer during sleep is actually very small, just to keep the content in memory alive so that it can be quickly restored.
HughSleep
Equivalent to people after workRestIf you don't finish the day's work, you don't need to put it in your head, just write it down in your book, and you can see it when you go to work tomorrow. Technically, after hibernation, the computer will no longer keep the document it was editing in memory, but write it to an area of the hard disk, so that even if the power is off, the current work will not be lost. So whether to continue to power supply, whether the work content is kept in memory or on the hard disk is the difference between sleep and hibernation. When you turn it on after hibernation, the computer will read the work content from the hard disk and resume it, and the speed of the hard disk is far less fast than the memory, so the time to resume the work content after hibernation is longer than sleeping.
3. Shut down
Shutdown is equivalent to a person's vacation, and you don't have to think about tomorrow's work, just to give yourself an initial process of physical and mental integration, and when you return to work, everything is new. Therefore, the computer will not be powered on at all after the shutdown, and the previous work content will not be saved in the memory or hard disk. When you turn it on again, you won't see anything you worked on last time. Shutdown is the real rest of the computer.
4. Restart
Reboot = Shutdown + Power On. So, if you don't need to turn it on immediately after shutting down, then you don't need to use the restart option, just use shutdown.
To sum up, the advantage of sleep is that it canFastRestore the last working interface at the cost of a little power. The advantage of hibernation is that the last working interface can be restored after booting upDoes not consume electricityat the cost of slower recovery. The advantage of shutting down is that it allows the computer to really rest without having to do any extra work, at the cost of having to manually open the last work after turning it on. The advantage of a reboot is that you don't need to press the power switch twice in the event that you have to shut down and need to work immediately (e.g., a computer patch upgrade, a new program will be required to be rebooted or shut down to take effect), and the cost is that you have to pause the work at hand and wait patiently for it to stagger to its feet.
So, if you don't miss that little electricity, you can sleep every day;If you don't expect to use your computer again for a few days, you can turn it offIf there is a program installation or software failure, select Restart.
My personal advice is:Get sleep every dayto give the computer a respite after a day's work (during boot, even if you're not operating the computer, it's always working, at least it's always monitoring when it's needed to start working).Shut down once a week, let the computer components recuperate, and can reduce the software failure caused by long-term power-on;Restarting in the event of a malfunction or problem solves half the problem (the famous reboot that solves the failure**, also works on mobile phones). As for the lack of distinct advantages of hibernation, it is not necessary.
Final piece of advice: Whether it's a work computer or a personal computer, don't leave it on all the time. People need to be healthy to be healthy, and the same is true for computers. Also, no matter which way you shut down, don't forget to press Ctrl+S to save your work before doing so.