How do you turn off your computer?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

To turn it on again, that's what the screwdriver is for.

Well anyways, back on topic (following Soybean), I normally use Stand By for school (when switching classes and such) but, at home, I use Shut Down overnight.
Never tried Hibernation, never going to try.

[Calum]

I always shut down fully.
I remember my laptop had problems with standby that I could never resolve, it was very slow after waking up even if I left it for an hour or so to run the sleep from its circuits.
Seriously, standby made my laptop very slow and waking from hibernate took as long as a cold boot.
Hibernating on this computer is only slightly faster than a cold boot, not tried standby.
I don't think any power saving modes would benefit me personally anyway - if my computer's on I'm using it, if not I turn it off.

[soybean]

My desktop is the one with which I sometimes use Hibernation.  When I use hibernation, it's not mainly to save time starting up again, although it does save some time.  As I said my previous post, the main reason for using hibernation is to save a work session rather than having to close all open applications. 

My son sometimes uses my desktop computer and sometimes leaves some programs running. If I sense that he may have intended to come back to what he was doing but I know he won't be back at the computer for awhile, that would be an example of a situation where hibernation comes in handy.

[Calum]

I see the point there, but I'm the only user of my computer, so that doesn't really apply to me.
Anything I'm working on I just save before I shut down.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Yeah, I can see how that is very useful.

I think the only flaw in my laptop's power-saving feature is that any keystroke wakes it up from Safe Mode. Very annoying as I have to wait about 30 seconds before I can re-engage Safe Mode, otherwise my laptop would freeze for a minute.

[Ashutosh32]

I always hibernate, and shut down only if I get some serious problem, something like virus, to enter the safe mode.

[ashbourn]

I love hibernation on a laptop. Mainly because of the fast load about 5 - 10 seconds after I open it I'm ready to go. This was most useful at school and now when I am doing presentations and jumping around from room to room all day.
You do need to shut down every now like a desktop. Hibernation can take up a bit of disk space but that is becoming less of an issue.

Joe

[fireballs]

i use the command

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shutdown -s -t 000
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