denzel2009:

If all you do on the computer is facebook and nairaland, you can get away with not shutting down for 3 yrs. There are some services that need to be restarted for your computer to give optimum performance.

I do more than just facebook and Nairaland. There are heavy threads that run on my system simultaneously.

afam4eva:
I do more than just facebook and Nairaland. There are heavy threads that run on my system simultaneously.

I hear you

sylve11: I think that ur engineer is not happy with u owning a laptop.

i agree with u..lol..kidding

i just close my mac. case closed.

Baba_Eleko: i just close my mac. case closed.

who asked you if you used a mac. Laptop would have sufficed.

Baba_Eleko: i just close my mac. case closed.

Thanks my brother. Make dem go upgrade

You can go and ping as well. Hibernating ko, close Mac Ni.You can also insert as well.

It depends ... It would be wise to hibernate if you want to save some pages ,that you want to use some time soon but since almost every one is using window and could miss behave any time soon you could still consider saving those pages or what ever else and shutting down your computer foe use some time else

Logging off is used when you login to a computer used by more than one user so as to enable them login whenever you are not making use or not login to thesame system. Are you referring to shutting down or log off, hibernating a system will not cause any harm or damage to a system, is best used when you want to resume and continue from a previous working system environment. I have been hibernating my system 6 days in a week for more than 3 years now and it has never caused any harm to my system. But one should also take not that accumulated services may slow down your system if you do not restart it once in one or two weeks to stop the background services you do not need to run. Hibernating is a way of shutdown, but instead of stopping all the services running befor the shutdown, hibernating the system will save this services and the working environment in a portion of your system hard disk space and cut off power from the system resources like the RAM, Processor etc.

log off if it won't be used for several hours.

With a genuine window OS on your laptop, you have no choice but to restart at least once in a week, sometimes to uninstall something unwanted, you also need to restart. i hardly "directly" shut down, i hibernate, but sometimes my laptop freezes which means i must shut down to have it restored.

in 5 years, i have used 3 laptops, not because they got bad but because i had to move to the newest one, the others that i disposed have never given the new owners issues. taught them to always hibernate too.

For over two years, I have been hibernating my laptop and it is still OK today. So there is no problem hibernating... Logging out will close everything you are working on.If u are having issues, update your antivirus, scan , update OS and restart.

I cant rememba d last time i sut down my pc; i usually hibernate n v neva expernc any problem with it for over 2 yrs nw

My Hibernate button disappear from my Zinox win vista, I now use Sleep unless my battery is very low , I log off

yea... I av a similar prob sha.. Bt i fink hibernatin is better cos it keep ur system workin faster n easily accessable. Unlike shortin down dat u need 2 start frm d scrab!

Hybernating is the best for a laptop inorder to resume your current work. www.9jageek.com

Help, i can't play copied movie in my system. It writes program running in low memory, close some programs. I shut it down and the same respond game up. Bt i can play video that are already in d system bt nt a newly copied one. Acer ram 2g hard disc 284g

Hmm! See question nah

please both logging off and hibernating have different functions so you can't say one is better than the other. you hibernate when you have programs, docs, work, sites that you want to continue working on as you switch on ur system whether saved or unsaved, it could even be a movie u were watching and ur battery is down, u can just hibernate so when u charge or switch to another battery u can continue from where u stoped. while shutting down closes all programs. shutting down could also be used to troubleshoot your system in a situation where a program is not functioning properly, just shut down and it might be solved

yea... I av a similar prob sha.. Bt i fink hibernatin is better cos it keep ur system workin faster n easily accessable. Unlike shortin down dat u need 2 start frm d scrab!

Hibernating does not make ur system work faster rather it slows it down because u hv programs running already and depending on how large the size of those programs are, it slows ur system while shutting down closes all programs so wen u restart, u can choose which programs u want to run

Hibernation! Login off? Nooo... Why go for chicken when there is turkey at no extra price? "shutdown" would be a better option. Or, hibernate and restart when necessary.

Hibernating is the best. If the hibernating option is available why don't hibernate. If you hibernate your session will be saved and you can resumed from where you stopped and nothing will be closed though it requires a lotta space.

Logoff closes the session and sets the computer on standby a.k.a death mode . Hope you can extract the sense in my nonsense? Okay cool

afam4eva: I've been wanting to ask same question because i've never shut down my system in 3 years. I only hibernate.

Ever since I found out that hibernating does nothing to my computer, I've simply done the same for over 2-3 years too. I only shutdown after an update to the OS/Software/Browsers e.t.c and with a very powerful laptop, it gives you no problems. Most cloud based computers being developed such as the Chrome laptop will simply need to hibernate as programs will be hosted on the cloud and you can continue with your work once you connect with the internet. All this story of shutting down being better is all misinformation - shutting down means a slower start. Why go through that when I can start my work in less than 5 seconds after opening my laptop?

This is educating

Hibernation it is.. . . why shut down or log off?

THe only time i shutdown or restart is after windows update, shikena!!!

nawa o..
na nepa dey help us shutdown for naija..

A proficient technician knows the importance of shutting the system down once in a while and restarting!

tessyade: Maybe because the system is so use to hibernating hence "log off" refuse to function. You know computer can be very funny at times. I still think the best is to log off except you want to take a short break of say ten minutes.

If it refusese to log-off ... Remove the battery ... Shikena