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You’re done working with your laptop, you close it and it goes into standby. But is that really the best way to give it a rest or should you maybe not use some of the other options like a cold shutdown or hibernation? In this article, we’ll go through the different options and show you what to do.
But first, the quick rundown
When to shut down, sleep, or hibernate your laptop?
- In situations where you just need to quickly take a break, sleep (or hybrid sleep) is your way to go.
- If you don’t feel like saving all your work but you need to go away for a while, hibernation is your best option.
- Every once in a while it’s wise to completely shutdown your computer to keep it fresh.
Read on for the full details.
Sleep mode
What happens when you put your PC or Mac computer to sleep
Sleep is a very power efficient way to give your device a quick rest without completely shutting it down: Once you click on that option (or close your laptop lid), everything you’re working on and everything that's running, such as Windows or macOS and your applications, are kept in your computer's main memory (the Random Access Memory, or RAM). That RAM is then the only thing that draws batter and unnecessary built-in devices like your laptops processor, hard disk or DVD drive are powered down to save power.
When to put your computer to sleep
Sleep mode is the best and easiest option when you’re just quickly taking a break from work and have enough battery power left (or when your laptop is connected to the power outlet). Once you open the laptop or push a button, your laptop is instantly ready with all your applications running — and you can keep on working.
The cons of putting your PC or Mac to sleep
Sleep still consumes just a bit of battery and while it usually takes days (or weeks!) for a device on sleep to drain a fully charged battery, it’s something to be aware of. You might wake up your laptop later to discover its lost significant amount of battery life. But don’t worry, once the battery is critical, your laptop will automatically use hibernation (see below) to completely shut down and prevent any data loss.
Also, Windows and macOS and your apps tend to slow down and become a bit unreliable after a few days without being shut down. This can be due to its memory filling up or to the amount of temporary files created, among other reasons. That's why you should still reboot your PC every so often.
Rebooting your PC won't solve all of your performance issues — for that read our handy guide to speeding up your PC.
How to put your Windows PC to sleep
Click on the Start button in your taskbar and then on Sleep or simply close the laptop lid. That’s it. To wake it up again, push any button on your keyboard, the power button, or open the lid.
How to put your Mac to sleep
Click on the Apple button in the top left corner and select Sleep or close your MacBook. To power it up again all you need to do is open the lid or push the power button.
Hibernate
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What happens when you hibernate your PC or Mac computer
Hibernating your computer turns it off completely but allows you to continue to resume all work. How so? It essentially freezes everything you’re doing and stores it safely on your hard disk in the so called “Hibernation File”. It then shuts off the entire computer so it draws zero watts from the outlet. Once you push the power button, the entire system unfreezes and you can go on working.
When to hibernate your computer
Hibernating your Windows PC or Mac allows you to suspend your computer without drawing electricity or battery life. You should consider putting your computer to hibernate when you’re still working on something, and not going to be around a power outlet for several days. It’s best when you have a lot of programs, open web pages, open documents, etc, going on that you will need to pick up later, and don’t feel like saving everything for later.
The cons of hibernating your PC or Mac computer
It takes quite a bit of a time to “hibernate” the PC and also wake it up. The simple reason for this: Everything that’s in your memory — your Windows, your programs, your open web pages, your open documents — needs to be saved to your hard disk. Depending on how many apps you’re running and how much memory you have (such as 16 GB of RAM), that means a lot of data has to be written to and read from the hard disk. So it’s not as instant as using Sleep, which is a 1-2 second deal in most cases.
How to put your PC into hibernation mode
Click on the Start button in your taskbar and then on Hibernate. That’s it. To wake it up again, you have to push the power button. If that option is not visible, right-click on the little battery icon in your taskbar. Then click Power Options.
On the left hand side, click on Choose what closing the lid does. Select Change settings that are currently unavailable and tick the little box next to Hibernate.
How to put your Mac into hibernation mode
Hibernationon Mac is an interesting animal: Apple hides this option very deeply as it wants you to use the Sleep option first and foremost. It’s a very “Apple” approach to make you not think about various power options — you either shut down your Mac and or put it to sleep. We would not recommend manually enabling it (if you must, here’s how to do it).
Shutdown
What happens when you shut down your PC
Shutdown ends all your applications and completely powers off the laptop or desktop PC. It clears all memory, which is why I personally use it every 2-3 days to keep my system fast and responsive. It also feels like clearing up your desk a little bit.
When to shut down your PC or Mac
You should consider shutting down your PC or Mac whenever you are done with any work and don’t need to pick it up later. You should especially do so if you haven’t shut down your computer in a while. As I mentioned above, I recommend doing it every 2-3 days just to clear out the kinks in the system: you’d be surprised how much better it runs with just a simple reboot. Shutting down your PC or Mac is great for getting a clean slate the next morning.
If the PC is running sluggish or if you’re experiences it’s always worth restarting.
The cons of shutting down your computer
You need to save all your work and then wait for the system to shutdown or power up.
What about restarting?
Restarting does the same thing as shutting down: All applications are being closed and the OS (Windows/macOS) closes, but your PC or Mac powers back up again instantly. This is the option for when you feel your computer is sluggish or something isn’t working right. A good old dose of “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”.
Hybrid Sleep: The Secret Windows Option!
Desktop PCs come with an option called “Hybrid Sleep”, which mixes the best of hibernation and sleep mode. It puts all information that Windows requires for a speedy startup into your RAM, which is very similar to sleep mode. But the things you are working on will be written to the hard drive just in case (remember: The RAM loses its information once the power is gone, the hard disk won’t). This is disabled on laptops or tablets because they have a battery, but if yours is dying or if you just like the concept of hybrid sleep, then you should enable it. It might take just a bit longer than sleep mode to power down and startup your device, but it’s a safe option.
How to enable Hybrid Sleep on PC
Right-click on the battery icon just as you’ve done above. Select Power Options. Then click on Change plan settings next to the power plan that’s enabled. Next, go to Change advanced power settings. Go to Sleep, Allow hybrid sleep and select On.
You won’t find the new Hybrid Sleep option in your start menu, instead it replaces the Sleep option so you can just use that going forward.
Are any of these sleep options damaging my computer?
Technically, when you put your PC or Mac into Sleep mode, a part of it will continue to run. In theory, this becomes part of the wear and tear of any piece of machinery that runs, but the real impact here is so low that you don’t need to worry about it. Using your laptop on a daily basis will contribute far more to component wear than any sleep mode could so you shouldn’t worry about it. Of course, shutting down and hibernating are the options with literal no wear.
You have probably asked yourself, ”Do downloads continue in sleep mode?” The default setting for laptops is to go to sleep mode when the lid is closed; which is in some cases quite annoying.
Sometimes you may want to keep your chrome or torrent downloads active even when the lid is closed. Luckily for a windows laptop, with come an array of power options to keep your downloads on without having to connect an external monitor and mouse; while for a Mac, you will need a third party app.
Will Downloads Continue In Sleep Mode?
Short Answer: No, because, while your system is entered into sleep, all the devices lost its power except memory and all your data are stored in memory alone.
However, there’s a way around it. You will need to setup your laptop in a way the downloads will be active even when your lid is closed.
How do you keep downloads active when a laptop lid is closed
In this post, I am going to bring to you the various ways you can keep downloads active despite the fact that you will have closed the laptop lid.
For Windows laptops, we shall discuss first;
How To Keep Downloads On Sleep Mode In Windows 10
For windows 10, the process of changing power options so that the downloads are kept active when the lid is closed are straight forward. Here is how:
Step 1: Go to the left most corner of your Windows 10 laptop. Click the Windows icon. A magnifier icon will appear and in it, type the keyword “closing”.
Step 2: In the results window, “change what closing the lid does” will appear.
When clicked, it takes straight to the relevant settings you are supposed to change in the control panel.
That’s – Control PanelHardware and SoundPower OptionsSystem Settings.
Step 3: From the settings window, move down to the third option which says “When I close the lid”.
From its drop down menu, choose “Do nothing” for when the laptop is “on battery” and when “plugged in”
Click “Save settings”
Once the lid is closed, your laptop will continue to function normally. Active downloads will continue so that you won’t have to pause them when closing the lid.
How to Do It In Windows 7
For windows 7 you can tweak power settings by the following steps:
Step 1: From the Windows button menu, go to the control panel and double click power options.
Step 2: Go to what closing the lid does.
Step 3: From here you will see “when I close the lid”.
Click “Save changes”.
From the options toggle, choose “Do nothing”.
Close the Window.
By now your laptop will not shut down when you close the lid and therefore you will be able to keep downloads going on.
What if you want to shut down automatically after downloads?
Assuming you are asleep and you don’t want your laptop to keep running all night even when the download is finished.
You have got to find a way to keep it off and here is how:
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Make use of the Firefox and chrome AutoShutdown extension for those using the firefox browser.
With this extension comes, comes a custom OS command that will command your laptop to shutdown when all download tasks are done.
This helps to avoid heating problems for your laptop since the lid is close to the rest of the body and also controls and saves on your electricity bill.
How to keep downloads active when the lid is closed in MAC.
Put On Standby
No inbuilt power settings to tweak. No command to run. Fine, there are two ways you can keep downloads active when you have closed the lid of your Mac. The good thing they don’t require you to be a geek.
Here they are:
Use a third-party application
A third party application “Insomnia X” will keep your mac laptop active when the lid is closed. The good thing about the app is that it is free.
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Step 1: Make sure you have an unarchiver tool installed on your Mac.
Step 2: Download Insomnia X and use the un acrchiver tool to decompress the downloaded file.
Step 3: To set it rolling, install the “Insomnia X” app by dragging it the applications folder.
When you run the application, it will appear in the menu bar.
Step 4: When you bring the cursor to the insomnia X app in the horizontal menu bar, it will bring a drop down list of options.
Check the “Disable lid Sleep”.
To beef things a little better, you can check the “ Disable idle sleep” option. Your mac will keep active, downloads will go on even when the lid is closed.
Step 5: If you can estimate the time your download will take (which is difficult due to many factors involved), you can set the time you want this app to keep the laptop active and then it will shutdown automatically thereafter.
This Insomniac X app also gives more control over shutdown in macs.
From its preferences menu, you can choose “Disable lid sleep when on AC” to prevent the laptop from going to sleep mode when it is still plugged into the power mains.
You can also protect your Mac from the dreading effects of overheating by choosing “CPU Safety” option.
Please remember that you will have to change settings in Insomnia X whenever you will need to keep downloads active, so once you restart, these settings will not hold.
Keep downloads active by connecting an external monitor on Mac.
To use this kind of method, you will need the following:
1. Plug in the power chord
2. Connect external display
3. External keyboard through USB or bluetooth
4. External mouse through usb or bluetooth
Graced with all these devices, connect each of them to your Mac laptop and ensure they are properly functioning.
Once you close the lid when downloads are active, a Mac laptop will turn to the external display leaving all computing tasks active including the download jobs.
To revert back to normal display usage; open its lid and it will return back to its monitor for Mac Os 10.7 or later.
For earlier versions, you just need to unplug the display, close and open it. You will be good to go.
Conclusion
The tips given above should help you keep your big download jobs active even in your absence or when your lid is closed.
While you would want to keep downloads active when you are away, please ensure to take control of heating. It is very saddening to return or wake up when you have actually fried your laptop simply because you wanted to keep your downloads active.
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Enjoy your downloads!