re: Footnote on WinME Hibernate
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 10:08 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5923 messages posted)
Hibernate is for shutting the system down by saving it's existing state to the hard
drive and then shutting the computer down. When you then restart the machine, you
are back to where you left off. It is NOT for clearing memory. The fact that your
machine is coming back to life is evidence that hibernate is not working, and there
are many reasons for this. From bad drivers to software apps and utilities that
aren't friendly with hibernating/suspending, to older hardware/motherboards that
won't support going through the hibernate process. When the machine comes back on
after failing to hibernate properly, it has cleared out/stopped (or tried to stop)
applications that Windows was trying to suspend, so obviously your RAM and/or system
resources are going to be freed up for this and other reasons. This ISN'T the purpose
of hibernate.
Rather than doing this to free up resources, which by the way isn't the same as having
free physical RAM, try this free utility that I use on older machines that still
run Win 9X. It works better (and can be configured) without user intervention if
you want.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm
By the way, there is only one way that hibernate works when it actually works to
the end result of shutting your machine down. Don't know what you mean by "two"
ways.. There is standby, and there is hibernate. The two work in different ways.
Standby suspends and keeps power on but in a low state to keep the contents of the
RAM "live". The PC is actually still "on". Hibernate does not. To resume from
the hibernated state, you have to push the power button the same as from a cold start.
On Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 11:51 am, Bob C. wrote:
>System Hibernate is pretty doggone good but I have found it works two ways. One
way
>is good. The other one is too but different. I only wish I could have the choice
>of choosing the one I want when I want it.
>
>It would be interesting to know why this difference happens and how it might be
usefully
>taken advantage of.
>
>It was only a few months ago that I began running System Monitor routinely. Then
>one day I ran system hibernate and saw its good effect on available memory.
>
>At that time, when I selected Hibernate, the system screen would quickly blink off
>but , in about 10 seconds, the computer would beep, the screen brighten and return
>to the usual desktop. System monitor showed the memory situation was much improved.
>
>Not many days later, I got to thinking this was so good it must be well known and
>I was late to the party. A little more thinking, mulling over all the bad press
>I've seen on winME(undeserved in my opinion), I decided to some Googling on the
subject.
> I am sort of in the habit of checking newsgroups for computer tips and not the
web.
>I found Microsoft's winME newsgroup and posted there. General response was this
>is a new discovery.
>Finally got around to checking the web today and found this forum.
>
>Whoops - have to go. I'll post more later.
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