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When I shut the lid on my laptop, it goes into hibernate mode. I've started doing this all the time instead of shutting it off.

I know that hibernate mode just saves my current applications to the front of the hard drive so it can be loaded quickly after boot.

Maybe it's my one track mind, but I keep thinking I should eventually really shut the laptop down. But the laptop boots faster, and I can get right back to what I was doing.

So now I just shut the lid instead of turning it off. But something in the back of my mind keeps saying something bad will happen. Does anyone know of any negative effects of regular hibernation?

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Well, hibernating windows is imho no different than having it running for months.

i remember some people discovered that some windows PDAs would crash after a two-day uptime, because of a memory leak. most people didn't notice, since they turn their PDAs off every day ^^. (or whatever were those devices called)

so as far as windows is concerned - i would shut it down once in a while. windows imho has weird swap management and not the best memory management. also it could be suffering from a memleak somewhere.

"Life is a queue. You come in, hang around for a bit, get some service, then depart."

Well, hibernating windows is imho no different than having it running for months.

Yes, I've found that after running on hibernate for 3-4 weeks, but laptop gets generally slow and groggy and I have to do a real shutdown.

It also causes quirks when it gets turned off in one wifi area, and then gets turned back on in a another. But that just means I have to reset the profile manually.

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So now I just shut the lid instead of turning it off. But something in the back of my mind keeps saying something bad will happen. Does anyone know of any negative effects of regular hibernation?

In general, regular hibernation doesn't have direct problems. It's a simple way to let you resume your computer session when it is turned off.

Quirks with hibernation occurr with the operating system it is running on. For example, if an application that you are running has a resource or memory leak, it will remain across physical sessions (and generally require a standard reboot.)

Also, if you put a computer into hibernation, it is expected that turning the computer on will bring it out of hibernation. If you instead dual-boot into another partition and access the hard drives, you will require a standard restart - the same applies if you change the hardware on your computer.