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Is Hybrid Sleep on Windows 7 the same as on Vista? As I understand it so far, it is like sleep, except the content of the RAM is also saved onto the hard drive, so when there is power loss or power outage, the state of the computer is not lost. That will involve saving all the RAM to the hard drive? So if my computer has 6GB or 9GB or even 12GB, that will involve saving 12GB of data to hard drive?
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in a word, yes. In Hybrid Sleep mode, system saves any open documents and programs to memory and to your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state as in normal Sleep/Standby state. An advantage of hybrid sleep is that if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. If a power failure such as power outage occurs when your work is saved only to memory (as in Sleep mode), all work is lost. In Hyrid Sleep mode, if the computer suddenly loses power, users can still recover to last working state as when computer enters hybrid sleep mode because all data in memory is saved in hiberfil.sys hibernation file. In this case, the computer is acted exactly same with hibernation mode to resume computer activity, and yet still enjoy the benefit of fast return to full operation of Sleep mode. | |||
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Yes it the same in 7 as in Vista. It's really sleep plus what Windows calls hibernation, which is where the contents of RAM are written to the hard drive. So yes it will involve written everything in RAM to the hard drive. If you look on the root of your C drive (if hidden files are displayed) you'll see Hyperfil.sys is the same size as your physical RAM. Although I assume Windows is smart enough that it only copies the RAM that is actively in use to the hard drive. | |||
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