Do you let your Vista Sleep?

[keogh]

Hi,

I have Vista Ultimate Retail, and opted for the 32bit install as some programs run slow in 64bit. Not that this matter, but I've told you know anyway

Well it would appear that Vista seems to promote putting your PC to sleep over shutting down altogehter (seeing that the shut down button puts the PC to sleep, and it takes 2 extra clicks to shut down), do you put your to sleep? Or shut it down?

I wouldn;t even ask this question as I think putting it to sleep is a fantastic idea, but a while back someone on here said that putting his XP to sleep screwed things up, and usually it would come out of sleep (went into a coma )? So it makes be dubious about doing it?

So just wanna know what you do? And is it bad for your system?

ta

Steve M

 

[keogh]

What do you mean Vista x64 runs programs slower? It just flicks the CPU into 32-bit mode for the 32-bit code and runs it entirely natively. According to most benchmarks it equals and even outperforms Vista x86.

I'm basing this on Homesite+, I'm a web developer and use homesite all the time and in x64 it was dreadfully slow. Also copying files around the place took forever it seemed, and if I copied a file from place to place in homesite on x64 you would see the windows copying diagloue (and it stayed there for a while) whereas on x86 it does it instantly?

Maybe it not suppose to do that, but either way it did do it for me so I went to 32bit.

I never intended to install 64bit when I got my copy of Vista Ultimate anyway, but I though ah why not, if it screws up Ill install 32bit... and thats what I did