re: Footnote on WinME Hibernate
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 12:45 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob C.
(9 messages posted)
Thank you for the info, C.K. Yes, I was aware Hibernate sometimes runs as you described,
maybe most of the time. For awhile I had it such that, by running system restore
to a certain point, it works as you describe, the Standard Version. System Restore
to other restore points made it, as I mentioned, good for garbage collection you
might say.
In either case it does do some useful garbage collection and thats a good thing which
not many people seem to be aware.
I recently put a new AV on and don't relish going back to the old restore point -
I don't totally trust restore as, you might have gotten the feeling that something
occasionally goes on in this machine that is unusual to say the least. Zone Alarm
did not report it either and ZA has dropped most of their support for winME/win9x.
I will have a related question elsewhere on the forum on System Restore. I would
appreciate your input on it also.
HTH
Bob C.
On Friday, November 30, 2007 at 10:08 am, C K wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm
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>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.
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