# Does Microsoft own my laptop? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-microsoft-own-my-laptop/828474 "2019-01-27T08:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-microsoft-own-my-laptop/828474/81 "2019-02-27T10:39:08Z")
Back in Windows 6.66 or WTF it was, there were TWO options: Sleep and Hibernate. Now there’s only Sleep, which I suspect is similar to the old Hibernate. It’s easy to go to Sleep; recovery is more problematic. Why did they get rid of ‘Hibernate’? I suppose it’s to conform with their model: _You Click, We Decide_. (Why EVER go to sleep? Where I live is HOT, _very hot_. I think I’ve lost two laptops to inadequate cooling already.) I push the power button to recover from Sleep. The machine’s response then is variable — the only constant is that whatever it does will take a LONG time, _very long_. Eventually I get tired of waiting and push the Enter key. This leads to the … _Incorrect Password message_. :smack: (Upthread I already explained why I NEED a password even though I don’t WANT one.) On average recovery from a Sleep takes about four or five times as long after the unwanted Microsoft assault as before. > [@septimus](#): > > … The most major change I’ve noticed when comparing Windows 10,010 with Windows 9,010 is that many simple things have become much slower. As another example of SLOW: I go to the “Type here to search” bar and type g-i-m-p. The display shows ‘g’ all by itself. (Hint: Every.Single.Time I type ‘g’ into that search bar, the ‘g’ is followed by ‘imp’.) I wait for a LONG time. Nothing: just the lonely ‘g’ sitting in the search bar. I type ‘i’, stupidly thinking it hadn’t recorded my ‘imp’\*. NOW I see “gimpi not found. Search Net for gimpi?” or WTF it is. :smack: (\* - Back at the birth of IBM PC, when 128k was the maximum memory size and RAM was precious, the PC Bios had a keystroke buffer of size 16 or some such. Kilobytes is no longer even a word – it’s all megabytes or gigabytes – but IIRC the keyboard buffer on these boxes is still 16 characters. :smack: ) Of course some of the heinous slowdowns aren’t Microsoft’s fault. For example, when I open a browser tab for Washington Post, I have to remember to blow up the tab before wandering off for a half-hour. Otherwise some (memory-grabbing?) bug in Washington Post’s Javascript will make the laptop almost unusable – it will take several minutes just to get it calm enough to be able to click-X destroy the tab. Have others noticed that? Or do y’all have 4 Gigs of RAM and, unbeknownst to you, 1 Gig is used just for your Washington Post tab? 🙂 > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > If you don’t want to download anything fancy like Notepad+ with crash recovery, Stickies is better for notes to yourself. I was exaggerating when I said I only use the laptop for YouTubes and SDMB rants. I also produce copious text, e.g. for my hobbyist blogs. 99.9% of this work is done with _‘vim’_ whose recovery options are pretty good. My complaint was about the other 0.1% – little doodles, e.g. links for an SDMB post where Notepad is more convenient than an extra click or resizing my xterm-\>vi window. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-microsoft-own-my-laptop/828474/82 "2019-02-27T13:59:49Z")
Sleep (aka hybrid sleep) now automatically hibernates after an extended period of time. between this and “fast startup” (which is actually partial hibernation), this is usually considered sufficient for most users. However, one can still [reenable Hibernate in the menu using the Control Panel](https://winaero.com/blog/add-hibernate-to-the-start-menu-in-windows-10/), same as they could on Windows 7 (which also used hybrid sleep, but not fast startup). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-microsoft-own-my-laptop/828474.md?page=4)