I completely agree with the statement regarding the difference between hibernate and standby....
Unfortunately, I have not had a lot of luck with Hibernate myself. XP's implementation, at least on my PC, is buggy as crap. There have been times where it won't shutdown. There are times when it will shutdown and then it won't boot up right. And don't even get me started with people who uses it at work. I just tell them to avoid.
In my personal opinion, it's much easier to practice basic computing hygiene, which is to save all your work, and maybe even implement incremental backup procedure before putting the computer on standby.
Standby has worked flawless for me so far, on both desktops and laptops. So, that's what I use.
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