Sleep or shut down the laptop?

Is it better to sleep or shut down the laptop? I mean in general for the laptop, not necessarily to save battery or anything. Thank you!

No need to shut down unless perhaps the laptop is going to be in a travel bag for a while.
I just close the lid to stop using; open the lid to use.
I've been doing this routine since OS X 10.0.

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Is it better to us sleep or shutdown for a new MBP with SSD? The laptop will probably be used at least nce per day but likly not used for 18-20 hours at a time.

It's better to let it sleep. Just closing the lid is all that needs to be done.
No need to restart/shut down unless something isn't working right.

Problems with shutting down the laptop and speakers

it is not always the case but most of the times it happens that my hp speakers do not work most of the timesand secondly i cannot signout the laptop whenever i try to do so as when i click the option it is not likely to work and then screen gets blank and then i have to forcefully shut down with the power button. my product os HP PAVILION G6 NOTEBOOK PC AND WINDOWS 8 .
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Hi faizraja,
Thank you for your query, I will do my best to assist you.
I grasp that it will not shutdown from the menu options and the speakers don't work most of the time.
I would try a Refresh Your PC to Resolve Problems (Windows 8). Just to be on the safe side, I suggest backing up your personal files to prevent loss.
Here is a link to No Sound from Speakers (Windows 8) to assist with the speaker issue. Are you accidentally muting your system? Here is a link to HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC Maintenance and Service Guide, please not page 12 item 3 for this option.
If this has not helped, I suggest you do a recovery back to factory. Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 8).
You will receive a prompt to backup your personal data to prevent loss. If you have not done one recently, I suggest you do one now.
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Sleep or shut down at night?

Hi, it just occurred to me that in summer with frequent lightning storms especially during the night, might it be a good idea to shut the computer down and disconnect the power adapter at night?
I tend to use the computer plugged in during the day, with short periods of battery use, and then at night I leave it plugged in and just close the lid. Even with old PC's I did this without a problem, but with my new MBP I don't want to take any chances!
Thanks,
Karen

karenr wrote:
Thanks.. re. shutting down at night, I thought there was an issue of wear and tear from starting up so often.. otherwise it would certainly be simpler to shut down and not worry about nighttime power surges.
I don't worry about wear and tear, because although technically it might be better to run your computer at full power 24/7 to avoid premature wear from thermal and power cycling, realistically nearly every Mac user either sleeps or shuts down their laptop at least once a day whether that's at night or merely to transport it (since it is a laptop after all) and therefore powering off is the norm, and it is not causing mass early laptop deaths.
We are also weighing leaving the computer plugged in versus the potential damage from a lightning strike, and we're saying the potential damage from sleeping or shutting down at night is assumed to be less severe than that of a direct lightning hit.
Re. sleeping the computer all night and draining the battery, I do that once a month to calibrate the battery, but isn't it recommended to not drain deeply too often?
You are right that is is recommended to not do deep discharges too often. But an overnight sleep does not drain the battery that far, maybe a few percent. What I didn't mention is that if your battery is new and fully charged, it will probably last around a week in sleep mode. One night off the charger isn't going to drain the battery unless, as I mentioned, it's an old battery with a fraction of its original capacity.

Recently got a MacBook Pro. When I use it for work purposes, I plug in a large screen and key board. When in this mode I would like to shut off the laptop screen or even close the lid. Is that possible?

RECENTLY GOT A mACKbOOK PRO. WHEN USING IT FOR WORK PURPOSES I PLUG IN A LARGE SCREEN AND KEYBOARD, THAT WORKS FINE. HOWEVER WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE LID ON THE LAPTOP, OR AT LEAST SHUT DOWN THE LAPTOP SCREEN WHILE USING THE LARGE SCREEN. IS THAT POSSIBLE?

Hi Jim,
Craig is right on with his post. Hope he won't mind if I add the following link, as recently it has been noted by some posts here that there are some "quirks" with Clamshell Mode:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131?viewlocale=en_US

Problem shutting down the Satellite U200-170

Hi,
i'm new at this so do forgive me if the question was asked already. I just bought a Satellite U200-170, it was the last in the store and i did not feel like waiting for 2 weeks to get the laptop so i bought the showroom model (which is in perfect state). I did format the laptop because the store made 2 partitions whichh i didn't want. So when i was formating the pc i inserted the recovery cd (part 1/2) and the pc started up with all the necessary drives and utillities.
Afterwards i did insert recovery cd (part 2/2) but nothing happend so i figured all of the utillities and drives was on the first cd. Now the problem is that i'm experiencing some problems when i want to shut down the laptop. The screen kinds of crashes when windows is shutting down so i have to manualy shut down the laptop by pushing the on-button. How to solve this problem.
I also like to know whats on the second recovery cds.

Hello
Recovery image is one file that contains more different components (OS, drivers, tools, utilities, some demos or anything else) and just if the whole image is preinstalled you will be able to use it. Usually it is saved on two CDs or one DVD (depending how big the file is).
While recovery image installation there must be shown the installations procedure (shown in % or on other way I dont know how it looks like on newer models) when the CD1 content is copied the message will shown that you must enter CD2 to continue installations procedure. When you put CD2 into drive press enter and installation will continue. When the installation is over you can start the notebook and use preinstalled operating system.
With short words: for 100% OS installation you must use both CDs and the whole image must be installed. With just 50% of image you can not even start Windows.
If you, after recovery procedure, can start setup process and later use Windows XP the installation was successfully. Your problem can be caused by something else. On this way it is not easy to say what. In my opinion you should contact your local dealer and I am pretty sure that he can help you and explain why this happen.

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Doing those doesn't turn off your phone?
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My MAC mini looses the wi-fi connection to a Belkin N wireless router when it goes to sleep or shut down. I have to re select the network when restarting or waking the computer up. I think this just started with Lion. My iPod and iPad have no trouble.

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Is it possible to shut down the MAC automatically while being in sleeping mode?

Dear all,
on my MacPro I use a setting that after 30 minutes of inactivity, the machine moves into sleeping mode. That works well.
Additionally I'm using a setup within the energy saving section, that the Mac should shut down every day at 10:00 pm and start or wake up every day at 07:00 am.
But it seems, that, if the Mac is in sleeping mode at 10:00 pm, he cannot shut down.
Does anyone has the same experience and/or knows any help?
Thanks in advance - helee29

Dear Martin,
Thanks for reply.
I checked the logs as mentioned, but honesly saying I'm not experienced enough to understand all this notices.
What I found out in the meantime by testing (try and error) is:
- if the Mac is in working mode (just the screensaver is working) the automatic shut down and restart to set times works perfectly.
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Lenovo Miix 2 10: Sleep and shut down causes restart

I fairly recently ran into a problem with the Miix 2 10. It works perfectly fine otherwise, apart from two issues:
1. I can't put the computer to sleep. Hitting the power button, or selecting sleep from the power menu, or waiting long enough for sleep to engage via power options causes the screen to turn black, the computer won't wake by pressing the power button, and after a bit (under a minute?) the Lenovo boot up screen shows and the computer boots up "normally". This happens no matter how sleep mode is engaged. Basically the same behavior also happens when I select Shut down from the power menu, the computer shuts down normally and then after a little bit (under a minute again) the computer boots up again. The only way to shut down the computer so that it'll stay down is to hold the power button down so long the computer shuts down forcibly. Or wait for the battery to run out...
2. Almost no Windows updates will install. All of them fail with the following message: Code 80073712 Windows Update ran into a problem. I've searched high and low for a solution to the Windows Update problem, tried everything MS had to offer (short of factory reset or reinstall) and nothing has worked.
Truth be told I'm mostly worried about the first problem, not so much the Windows Update one. The sleep issue essentially stops me from using my Miix 2 10 as a tablet at all, I have to treat it like an always on laptop, and I have to even run screensavers to prevent possible screen issues because it's always on ("turn off screen" seems to also shut down the computer). Our local Lenovo only supports corporate computers, servers and professional laptops, and as far as I can see I can't contact Lenovo US in any way other than phoning them, so I'm more than a bit stuck with this.
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If anyone has any ideas that could help, I'm all ears. I've heard there are some BIOS settings related to power management that could cause this, but you can adjust absolutely nothing of any use whatsoever in the Miix 2's BIOS. It's completely useless when it comes to that. I'd really want to try and roll back the BIOS drivers, but that's not possible since they aren't available anywhere, so I think I'll just have to return the unit.
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S0 -> D0
S1 -> Unspecified
S2 -> Unspecified
S3 -> Unspecified
S4 -> D3
S5 -> D3
A couple of them, for example ACPI X86-based PC, say D3 to S1-3 as well.

i think i find solution.
after instal baytrail driver, without restart i instal gpu driver direct from intel
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work fine for now...

Should I put it to SLEEP or SHUT DOWN?

Greeting everyone. I recently purchased my first Macbook, my first laptop ever. I've pretty much grown up using a desktop pc. I turn it on when I get home, put it on sleep mode when I leave it to watch tv or what not. If I'm done with it for the day, I turn it off.
Now before everone jumps on me for probably doing the wrong thing please note that I come from a "Turn it off when you're not using it kind of family". Can someone give me some pointers in using my new mac? For example, someone told me that I can actually leave my macbook in sleep mode the entire day even when traveling to and from school/work. Is this safe for my macbook? I apologize if this is such an elementary question.

I have found that my machines respond better when I just close the lid (sleep). It is important to understand that the laptop caches everything in memory to the hard drive before it goes to sleep, so you want to make sure you allow the extra time for that to happen (wait until the sleep light starts pulsating) before you move the laptop if you can. Otherwise you're moving the machine while the hard drive is still spinning. I know that the newer laptops typically have a Sudden Motion Sensor that will automatically park the heads under certain conditions, but why tempt fate? Depending on how many applications you have running, and how much RAM you have installed, going into sleep mode can take longer than you might expect. Whether you adapt a sleep or shut down operating preference (I prefer sleep- only shutting down every once in a while for OS installs, restarts due to problems, etc.), it is much more important to follow Apple's guidelines for calibrating the battery. Not only does following these instructions allow the computer to more accurately report the battery charge level, it also runs the lithium ion battery through a complete cycle - something that is needed every once in a while to keep it operating in tip-top shape. The instructions for the procedure are found here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/9036.html

Shutdown doesn't shuts off the laptop in Windows 10 (64 bit)- FAN, Power button Light still on

Hello. I have HP pavilion p045tx. Recently I upgraded to windows 10 update (64bit). When I shut down my laptop, the screen turns off but the power button light, fan etc still keeps on running. Previously I was running windows 8.1 home edition. I didn't face any sort of problem like this. Please give me solution what to do.

Download version 9 or 10 of the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver.Navigate HP's Software and Driver Downloads site (http://www8.hp.com/us/en/drivers.html) to find the latest approved driver for your model. Filter by version, selecting Microsoft Windows 8.1 on the dropdown menu. Look for the download in the "Driver-Chipset" category. If an MEI driver with a version number starting in 9 or 10 is listed, download it. [Version 9.5.24.1790 1.5M (http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp66001-66500/sp66228.exe) will work for most models.]If an MEI driver with a version number starting in 9 or 10 is NOT listed, download the appropriate driver directly from Intel (https://downloadcenter.intel.com/search?keyword=intel+management+engine). [Version 9.5.24.1790 1.5M (https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23091/Intel-ME-9-Management-Engine-Driver-for-Intel-NUC) will work for most models.]Download the Windows 10 "Show or Hide Updates" Troubleshooter Package (http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/2/2/F22D5FDB-59CD-4275-8C95-1BE17BF70B21/wushowhide.diagcab).Change the Windows Update Services setting from Automatic (Delayed Start) to Manual.In the Control Panel, select Administrative Tools and open Services.Scroll down to Windows Update and double-click it to bring up its properties.Click Stop to stop the service from running.Change the Startup Type to Manual and click OK.Install version 9 or 10 of the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver. If you receive a dialog warning about replacing a newer version of the software, accept it.NOTE: You do NOT need to uninstall version 11 before installing version 9 or 10. The presence of some version of the driver is required in order to "upgrade" (or in this case downgrade) it.Run the Windows 10 "Show or Hide Updates" Troubleshooter Package and hide updates to the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver. (Doing so will block your system from automatically reinstalling or showing updates for version 11 of the driver.)Change the Windows Update Services setting from Manual back to Automatic (Delayed Start).Restart your computer.Rejoice! You can finally sleep and shut down again. --DanG

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