Windows 8 Six Shutdown Modes Detailed Explanation

When power management support and all shutdown modes are turned on, if you press Alt+F4 on the desktop of Windows
8, we can see Select the menu window as shown. There are six ways to close the current system in the menu: “Switch User”,“Logout”,“Sleep”&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&" Some of these options are relatively easy to understand, and there is little controversy, such as "switch user" and "delete". However, with the upgrading of the system, the remaining four options have new connotations, so many users have doubts about the use of these options. This article will sort out the problem of the more confused shutdown options, and hope that you can thoroughly understand these seemingly ordinary and confusing system commands.

There are some of the most economical

system shutdown options for power saving, one of the main purposes is to set up for power saving. So, which of these options is best for saving power?

The options related to power saving are mainly three options: sleep, hibernation and shutdown. Shutdown completely shuts off the power supply without a doubt. The dormancy is also completely cut off the power supply, and does not consume power. Unlike the shutdown, the data environment is saved and restored on site. Sleep is different, because after entering this state, although the main power consumption components such as display, fan, hard disk, etc. stop power supply, the basic memory data must be retained, so it is necessary to maintain normal power supply, so sleep will have a certain power consumption. Among the three comparisons, sleep state is the only type of power consumption. However, because this method was originally designed to save power, the power consumed by sleep is minimal compared to the mode in which the main unit is turned off and the main unit is turned on.

Which is the fastest for acceleration

The system sets up these shutdown options, and the other is to speed up. So, which of these options is best for a quick start system?

Sleep, hibernate, shutdown, restart, logout, switch user and other six options, can be said to be related to the speed of the boot system. Among them, the most quick way to restore the scene is the sleep mode. This method saves all the operating environment data, including the current in-memory data, and only temporarily turns off the power supply of other devices outside the memory, so it is the most time-saving to recover. The next step is “Switch User”, because the switch user is opened while the multi-user environment is open at the same time. The switch user just transfers from one user environment to another without closing the current user data. The environment will not take too long. And “Logout”, a user needs to save the user data first, and then close all the applications in the environment to complete, so it takes longer than switching users, but because it does not need to restart the system, it is more than restarting the boot. save time.

The remaining three options, “hibernate","shutdown" and "restart" are the three most confusing options. Windows 8 default shutdown is to use the option of "quick start", it will write the original boot process that needs to be reloaded as much as possible in the swap file, and then directly read the data in this file at startup. The system loads quickly. The hibernation is to save the environment data in order to save the last operating environment, and then to restore the operating system shutdown mode when the next boot. The startup speed of these two modes is generally “Shutdown” (with Quick Start) is faster than “Sleep” because it does not include the manual recovery or reconstruction process of user field data. The restart may take longer, because it will complete all data shutdowns step by step, and if the system updates the data, it will prepare to complete the system update and configuration update. Therefore, "restart" is the most time-consuming shutdown method for Windows 8.

Sleep and sleep are different

Sleep and sleep, sounds similar, but they have substantial differences. In fact, they are set up for different applications. We illustrate by example.

If you are going to do things on the computer
, you will often leave in the middle of the journey, and come back to work after ten or dozens of minutes. At this time, you will computer< Br>Set to leave when you press the power button to enter “ sleep & rdquo; most suitable. In this way, you can enter the power-saving state immediately, and the operation is not complicated. To return to the environment, you only need to press the power button, and it takes only one or two seconds to recover the environment.

If a complicated project is going on, there are a lot of design software and reference materials open in the computer, the work is not completed, and we need to leave the company for ten days and a half months or more, after returning. In order to continue this project. At this time, if you do not want to close many files and data of this project, because it is too much trouble to re-open it after returning, it is best to select “Hibernate” mode shutdown at this moment. It not only allows us to completely retain the working environment, but also completely cuts off the power to keep the computer in a state of no power consumption.

The difference between shutdown and restart

“shutdown"and"restart" surface look is two different tasks, the former sounds like it needs to turn off the computer after completing the work, after It seems that you still need to continue working (just because the system is slow or have other needs to restart), but in the Windows 8 environment, they need to be worth noting, that is, when we installed the system update file, Or after the software configuration is reset, if the environment requires us to restart the system, and we have started the quick start selection, then select “Shutdown” and then power on and restart and directly select “Restart” command restart. The effect is completely different. The latter can complete system updates and software updates, while the former will remain in its original state and the system and software will not be updated. Therefore, although we chose to restart the computer after shutting down, the system or software environment has not changed. From this point of view, in this case, only the restart that selects the “Restart” command is a true restart, and the restart after shutdown is “false restart”. If you are experiencing a situation where the system software update does not work, you should consider it from here.