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MrWizard
Sep 13, 2015Moderator
joebedford wrote:MrWizard wrote:I believe that is incorrect. If the CPU clock is stopped, there are no background processes running.
your PC ... might even being doing things you don't know about
all sleep does is blank the screen and pause user opened programs/windows
background processes keep operating
Yes, certain hardware might be running some very low level firmware to monitor when to tell the CPU to restart but those aren't "background processes".
and just how are you going to know that the cpu clock is stopped ?
Hibernation stops everything, stores data and program points on hard drive and shuts down
sleep does NOT do that, un plug your laptop power supply, put in sleep walk away for two days, come back and check the battery
you might it dead and the laptop unable to boot
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