Noncompliant wrote:

A PC or laptop is not off if in hibernate mode.


Sorry, you are completely wrong. Read, for example
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hibernate.mspx

which states "Hibernate saves an image of your desktop with all open files
and documents, and then it powers down your computer."

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Standby and hibernate were initially developed for laptops to save
power when not in use and left on. Which is and was an excellent
idea for laptops.

An easy way to tell if a PC or laptop is initially actually off is to
visually account its display during turn-on.

An MVP would not make such a ludicrous statement.

"leew [MVP]" wrote in message
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Noncompliant wrote:
Neither one turns the computer off.

I completely disagree. Hibernate, as has been mentioned, saves what
is in RAM to the harddisk and then shuts off the computer. I have
swapped laptop hard drives that were in a "hibernate" state and when
swapping back I get the same point I was at. If you tell the
computer to hibernate, it WILL turn the computer off. (I do this
with my laptop all the time and rarely if ever have a problem -
definitely haven't had a problem with hibernate for at least a year).

-Lee