Windows XP Hibernate mode

Scruff

Is the Windows XP Hibernate mode any good? Call me a tree hugging hippy but all this "Power of 1" campaign has got me thinking. I turn off my lcd monitor every evening leaving work but leave the pc as it is because i absolutely hate having to open all my program, ssh connections etc i need for work again every morning.
However i wouldnt be adverse to putting the pc into hibernate mode if it actually worked properly, there was no degradation of performance and it actually reduced power consuption.
My only experience of using the Hibernate option is if i forget to plug in my laptop at home when the battery is nearly dead it will atutomatically go into hibernate shutdown. In this case i find after restarting out of hibernate mode that performance is so dredful i end up rebooting. It any different with a desktop?

Rob_l

you could alternatly set all the programs you need into the startup folder and then shutdown the pc
when you boot it up it will start all those programs for you