Why AREN’T you hibernating?!

Hibernation saves the current state of your system to disk, so the system can completely power down but be restored to the same state when restarted. Best of all, the battery doesn’t drain in this state. To enable hibernation, launch POWER OPTIONS from the CONTROL PANEL, click on the HIBERNATE tab, and check the box labeled ENABLE HIBERNATION. Then, when you have need to shut down, but want a bunch of open programs to still be open when you reboot, click START, TURN OFF COMPUTER, hold down the SHIFT key (so “Standby” will turn into “Hibernate”) and click HIBERNATE.