Save Power and Boot Quicker with Windows Vista’s Low Sleep State

If you have Windows Vista, you may have used that Power symbol button to turn off your computer or you may have not. The button is actually Microsoft’s improvement to Hibernation we all know so well from Windows XP. When you click the button Vista actually writes everything your are doing from Ram to your hard drive and puts the computer into a very low power state. The great idea behind doing this is so you can quickly return to your session without waiting for the computer to boot up.

So here is the process: You click the Power Button from the Start Menu, your computer writes your session to your hard drive, and finally the computer turns off. Once you do this, there is a bit of lag time where you can’t do anything because your system is being written to your hard disk but once it is finished, you are ready to go. when you want to turn on your computer, just hit the power button and log in if necessary. You will notice your computer will be ready in a few seconds, much faster than your normal boot up.