Hibernate or shut down-which one is safer?

What do you mean by safe. If you are the only one using your computer then you have nothing to worry about safety. If your computer is password protected it will even more safe.

both are safe. there isn't any problem with hibernate because before going to hibernate state, computer saves all the work in the hard disk. in the event of electricity failure, etc, your data will be safe. there is no harm to put your PC in hibernate often

Shut Down is a more safer choice because it doesn't uses any electricity and you could save some money in your electric bills. Hibernate is good is you have something to do or doing something like downloading. But for me shutdown is a much wiser choice.

I think hibernating has a little problem compared to switching off the computer. When the computer is switched off, you are assured that when you switch it back on, start-up programs are loaded properly. The problem with hibernating (at least to my knowledge) is that the current status of the computer, meaning what ever is loaded in memory will be cached to the hard drive. This may include viruses that are running or other problems that the computer has encountered during that previous operation. Also possible data corruption of the cached system status on the drive may cause start-up failure when the computer re-boots after hibernation. So for me it is safer to switch it off.

hi my dear friend shut down is more safe than hibernating hibernating will help you when we use laptops it will used only for power management function so if you use laptop use hyphenate when there is a need to use the laptop frequently hibernating will save the RAM's datas as it is

It is your wish. Hibernate make turn off and turn on fast, but the operating system does not close compltely and the cash memory, cookies are not erased.

Sorry, but I don't understand the question. I don't know what hibrating means when it comes to the computer. I do shut down my computer at night time but that is the only time I do. Otherwise I just leave it on and just shut off the screen. I used to work in an office enviroment and our IT guy told us to never turn off our computers at night. He said it was better for our computers to leave them on because it takes a lot of power to turn it on, if we turned it off. So we always left it on and I leave my computer at home on, too. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend, Have a good mylotting day, Chris [b][/b]