The term hibernate refers to the action of hibernating your Microsoft Windows operating system. A user can hibernate their system via the shutdown menu in Windows. When they do this the system will keep all open applications, software and services running when you restart Windows again. Hibernating your Windows operating system will shut it down (ie. power it off). It is common for users of a notebook computer (laptop) to have their Windows operating system hibernate when they close them up (to the point of latching the screen part to the keyboard part). Hibernating writes all of the memory containing information in relation to your current Windows state to hard disk so that it can be read directly back into memory when you start it up next.

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