Sleep or hibernate Windows overnight?

So, I just moved from Mac to Windows 10 laptop. On my MacBook, I never did a shut down. I would simply put it to sleep overnight and then continue using it next day. I really don't want to shut down the Windows and then have all the programs load up again when I start it up next day (it's kind of annoying and I'm used to of instantly using the computer next day and conitnuing where I left off). I tried putting the Windows to sleep but next day more than half of my battery was drained. On the Macbook, sleep mode barely takes any battery.

So, what do you guys advise? Should I instead use the hibernate to replicate what sleep mode did for me on the Macbook? Or is there no way but to just shut down the laptop when I'm done for the day?

Hibernate uses less power than sleep and when you start up the PC again, you’re back to where you left off (though not as fast as sleep).

FreeBooter said:

Hibernate uses less power than sleep and when you start up the PC again, you’re back to where you left off (though not as fast as sleep).

I understand that. So with hibernate, I'll be saving battery but starting up will be taking a bit more time than sleep. So, perhaps, hibernate is the best option to replicate the behaviour as close to my Mac's as possible?

To avoid discharge - charge (and extend battery life) you should leave the laptop connected to the charger all time.
In this case you can disable hibernation and use only sleep mode and set to charge only to 80%.
If you have a HDD you must also shut down the HDD when not in use.

jas0992 said:

I understand that. So with hibernate, I'll be saving battery but starting up will be taking a bit more time than sleep. So, perhaps, hibernate is the best option to replicate the behaviour as close to my Mac's as possible?

For your purposes Sleep or Hibernate will have the same end result, you'll be back where you left off when you resume. But you can use both.

I have all my laptops set to Sleep when I close the lid, but with several laptops asleep there's a risk that I'll not get round to using any particular one again for days. If so, Sleep may eventually drain its battery. So I have also set them to hibernate after a set number of hours asleep. Before that time is up they will wake instantly from sleep, if I leave it a long time then it's a slower resume from hibernation.

The settings for this are in the Advanced settings for your power plan.

Change Power Plan Settings in Windows 10

This one I've set to sleep on closing the lid (or 15 minutes inactivity) and to hibernate after three hours.

Teetertotter said:

Whichever, will the laptop be connected to the internet....if you don't disconnect the wi-fi?

All my laptops are left connected to the WiFi when I put them to Sleep. When I resume from Sleep (or Hibernation if I've left them unused for long enough) they are all still connected to the WiFi.

W10 Tweaker said:

...I still lose a bit of charge during hibernation but much less than sleep...

It's not Hibernation that is draining power, it will be other things. Could be a network card that's still powered up to watch for a Wake on Lan signal, for example.

Hibernation itself requires no power, just a valid hyberfil.sys on its hard drive. I have previously hibernated a PC then removed its HDD to do work on the machine (replacing the HDD to test installing another OS in this case). You can even dismantle the laptop and remove the battery, on reassembly the system will resume from hibernation as if nothing had happened.