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XP's Hibernate Feature: Useful or Useless??

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PMFleXXX

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Hey, i was trying to install office xp when i noticed i ran out of space on my C drive (1.9 gig partition). considering that i just reformatted and installed xp 2 weeks ago, i went to see whats up. turns out hibernate has a file thats 200MB on my computer!! thats a huge chunk, and since i don't knowingly seem to use hibernate i though maybe you guys could tell me its worth keeping and/or how to get rid of it so that i can get some space. for now i think i'll just have to lower my page file size to 400 mb.

thanks!
 
I hate to say it's useful .. but on a laptop yeah its useful .. on a desktop .. eh not really .. just my thoughts ..
-neural
 
Hibernate can be pretty useful on a notebook computer. But WinXP boots pretty quickly anyway, so hibernate doesn't save a ton of time -- unless you like to have a lot of apps open and leave them that way for the hibernate / resume cycle.

But 1.9 gigs is WAY too tight for that OS, IMHO. Why are people so stingy with hard drive space for the OS? Causes a lot of problems. These operating systems need elbow room! You defeat so many needed functions, like defragging for instance, when you have too little free space on a partition.

BTW, lowering the pagefile size too far can have definite deleterious effects upon system performance, too. Don't be too quick to do that. The level of adversity imposed by skimping on pagefile settings depends somewhat upon the way you tend to use your system, but I wouldn't suggest this as a fix for running out of space.

The fix for running out of space is to install that OS on a big partition!

😀

- Collin
 
My UPS uses Hibernate when I lose power. One day I was defragging my hard drive and went out. When I came home, I found out that the power had gone out. Fortunately, the UPS did a graceful shutdown and the pc was able to pick up from where it left off.
 
It's useful for me, since I keep a fair number of apps open and sometimes I hibernate my machine (desktop) at night... or to swap hardware (you can change all sorts of stuff, like adding/removing CD drives 😀).

it isn't really faster than booting, but I like not having to run my applications again.
 
All I do with my laptop is hibernate/restore. I never have to restart my apps and it gets my uptime high =)
 
? my system seems to recover from hibernate in a matter of moments... I never use it because I wonder about power usage... I try not to keep my pc on all night unless necessary. Anyone have any idea what kind of wattage is still being sucked while your pc is hibernating? (on a p3 733)
 
Since hibernate means the memory image is written to disk. The system uses no more power during hibernation than it uses when it is turned off. Standby is another matter. Memory has to be kept live for standby.

- Collin
 
"On my rig when I hibernate I can't get it to wake up"

I have the exact same problem with mine- Duron 700, QDI 7B mobo etc, same thing happens with suspend. You hit the power button, get the usual POST screen, then nothing. Monitor clicks on as if it's getting a signal and stays like that. This never used to happen...

Any thoughts anyone?

Dopefiend
 
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