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Shirka2010

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  1. I would like only to mention that on my old XP machine, with P4 2GHz, 2GB of RAM and old Seagate 160GB: a ) entering hibernation takes 12secs (while waiting for system to properly shut down - 20-25secs) b ) resuming from hibernation takes about 15 secs (while booting my system with all the startup applications is about 120secs - time to have the pc fully operational with no hdd activity) I really wonder how it is possible that your system starts in 25 secs and you do not benefit from hibernation? Hibernation would take 2-5 secs on that kind of machine. Suspend would be useless. When speaking about starting your system consider all the startup apps not only time after which desktop shows, because after that there is a lot of time for services and startup apps to load, and pcs are practically unusable then. I have a lot of experience with pcs and laptops with 3GHz duos and quatros PCUs and a lot of fast DDR RAM and SATA drives, and it is possible to start them in less than 20 secs, but that is with clean windows setup. Try to install MS Office, and use you system for month or two, and booting takes 30-40 secs, put Outlook to start automatically, and it lasts almost forever... In my office, while using Oracle and MS SQL - my life would be very difficult without hibernation - waiting 5 minutes for system to close, and then 10 minutes to start. Great. I really envy that kind of a machine you own. But I really do not understand why to keep your machine running all the time with that UPS constantly loading. I believie that you do not have a couple of servers to keep the world running. So It does not make any sence. You can have money but think about all the wasted energy, and equipment... You can equally buy new batteries each day, put them into your flashlight, turn it on and put it into closet to have it always ready. Do you see a kind of insanity in that kind of a behaviour? You do not do that, do you?
  2. But that is exactly what I had in mind - to have bothe options - standby and hibernate. The issue with standby is that it is not turning off your system. Hibernate does. And it does not interfere with pc operation (eg. open documents) as is keeps memory records while cutting off the power. Concerning standby - in my experience it is much less reliable, especially on onlder machines, when a standard was that pc was not resuming from suspend and hard-reset was required to use the machine again. Hibernaing as a windows feature and not hardware one (APM etc. related) was always more reliable too me and my friends. Plus - you have to have all drivers 100% windows certified and compatible to have the suspend work fine. Your problems may be HDD or memory related. When one of those components is broken it is likely that hibernation will fail as the memory is stored on the disc and backards. You say that rebooting is faster than resuming from hiberbation... There is no experience like that on the world I know. Rebooting means that windows has to close, and then load all drivers and software again. You are the first person who stated that rebooting is fastest method of starting work with a pc... even microsoft does not believe in it. Second - It seems to me that you never actually turn off your machine. Some people would think that is not worth to spend money to keep their machines continuously running (eg. in the night). I am forgetting about the noise which is obvious... Additionally, the longer your pc is turn on, the most likely it will experience electricity shortage, which means possible hdd errors even on ntfs partitions. You have to include good UPS system on your configuration to keep running... Expenses, expenses, and more expenses... Lets don't make a choice on it. As many people I know would likely choose to turn off their machines with hibernate rather than standy them. Hibernation is much closer to turning off.
  3. after defragmentation there is 'turn off' option, but I would appreciate if I could also SUSPEND or HIBERNATE my system (instead of turning it off). what do you think?
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