You have a business customer who must attend numerous meetin

You have a business customer who must attend numerous meetings each day and who uses her laptop to take notes during each meeting. She carries her laptop from meeting to meeting and needs to have the computer start up immediately upon arrival at each meeting. What power setting should she use?

A. Standby

B. Hibernate

C. Log off

D. Leave the laptop up and running

Solution

A. The best option is Standby (renamed Sleep starting with Windows Vista), which saves the desktop and all open files to RAM in a working state and allows for a quick shutdown and startup sequence.