Hibernation is an inactive computer state in which ram contents have been saved to non-volatile memory (such as a hard-drive). This allows the computer to completely power down, while maintaining running programs. Hibernation serves the same purpose as sleep mode. Hibernation takes longer to ...
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How do I stop Windows 7 from preventing itself from hibernating if a youtube video is on, even if it is not playing anymore?
Or at least I hope that's what is doing it. If you have any ideas let me know. The mouse for example may be disabled and it still doesn't hibernate.
The settings are: Sleep: never, Hybrid sleep: off, ...
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Does Windows 7 deleted files generated during hibernation?
Okay some one was using my Windows 7 partition and evidently she hibernated it instead of shutting down. When I tried to move about 2GB worth of files to my Windows from Ubuntu, I couldn't find them ...
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Reboot the computer from a saved hiberfil.sys file
I just powered on my system from hibernation and I accidentally deleted an unsaved work. My system is still on with the hibernation file still in use.The unsaved work is actually a write up on my site ...
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Linux GRUB2: How to resume from hibernation?
Moving to GRUB2 my Arch Linux no longer resumes from hibernation, because the actual resuming is no longer set up. In GRUB legacy I'd write:
/boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel /vmlinuz26 ...
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How do I make a Windows 7 laptop really sleep
We have a Windows 7 laptop in our household (Asus 9000 series).
I like it that you can put it Windows into hibernate mode. I configured it to hibernate when the lid closed.
This worked perfectly on ...
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Is Windows Hibernation Bad for SSD's? [closed]
I recently got an SSD, and I was wondering if should still continue using Windows Hibernation. My fear is that hibernation would cause significant wear-and-tear on the drive.
I have about 8GB of ...
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How can I get my computer to allow hibernate again?
My computer used to allow me to hibernate. Then my System Admins installed full disk encryption and it does not give me the option now.
I know it is not a domain restriction because two of my ...
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Windows 7 Dual Boot Hibernation
I have two different editions of Windows 7 installed on two different partitions (on the same physical drive). One is Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, one is Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
I have both ...
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Creating a hibernation partition on Windows 7
I have a laptop which comes with a 20GB SSD hibernation partition, but I want to install Linux and use half of that SSD drive as a swap partition. In the case that it breaks, during installation, how ...
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Hibernating a Debian machine?
I have a Vostro 1000, and am running Debian Squeeze. When I hibernate from GNOME, the screen bleeds before shutting down, and upon starting up it bleeds to start up.
Is this normal and expected ...
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Hibernate Option Disappeared
A while ago I had the option to hibernate the computer. Nowadays, this option disappeared. In fact, even the standby option (when click the turn off button) is greyed out.
I have tried the "powercfg ...
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Windows 7 will not hibernate [closed]
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Why doesn't Hibernate work any more (Windows 7)?
I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. When I put my laptop in hibernate mode, it turns off then turns back on ...
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Computer acting weird
My specs:
Windows XP PRO SP3 with latest updates of course
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3
CPU - DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E4300, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
Video card - Gigabyte GeForce 7200 GS
I have ...
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is it possible to toggle among different OS in a multi-boot PC without restart?
My notebook installed Windows XP and Ubuntu. Every time to toggle, I need to hibernate one OS (to keep current working things) and restart to the other.
Is it possible to keep both OS "live" and ...
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Does Windows use an RTC wake up to switch from suspend to hibernate?
In Windows 7 power management, you can state that suspend should happen after x minutes, and hibernate should happen after y minutes.
So if x=10 and y=180, then the machine must come out of suspend ...
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External monitor goes blank after resuming from hibernation in Windows 7
I have a Dell Vostro 3450 laptop connected via HDMI to an external monitor. Windows 7 is configured to use only this external monitor, disabling and turning off the laptop screen.
This setup works ...
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How can I make my computer play dead? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable power LED blinks during Vista hybrid sleep?
I have a laptop that when sleeping is perfectly quiet, which is great. What isn't so great is trying to sleep with ...
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Have soft-power button “ask me what to do”?
In Windows XP, there was an option in the power controls, to have the computer's physical "soft" power button "ask me what to do." Basically, the shutdown dialog would appear, and give the option to ...
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Fixing Windows 7 hibernation
I've been mucking around with the partitions on my laptop (I'm an experienced Linux/grub guy) and have somehow ended up affecting the ability of Windows 7 to go into hibernate mode. All other ...
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How to run a task every time computer resumes from suspend or hibernate in Windows
Is there a way in Windows XP to run a task every time a computer resumes from suspend/hibernate?
On workstation unlock would also work.
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Is it possible to make Windows 7 log in to a password protected account automatically, only when waking the machine from hibernate?
Is it possible to make Windows 7 log in automatically to my password protected account, only when I wake the machine from hibernate?
I usually put my machine in hibernate when I'm gone for a short ...
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How to get hibernate working on Windows 8?
I have been using Windows 8 x64 Developers Preview as my primary OS on my laptop.
Unfortunately I have been unable to enable hibernate (tried through registry and through powercfg.cpl). The closest I ...
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Windows Update waking machine from hibernation
One of my family members has a Windows (Vista) machine which is waking itself up from hibernation in an annoying fashion. Some investigation suggests that Windows Update is the guilty party - it ...
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Is there a known issue with Virtual Box hostonly adaoter causing Windows 7 to fail to hibernate?
I'm using Windows 7 x64 and had a Virtual Box 4.1.4 installation, without hostonly adapter and had no problems to hibernate or to go to sleep mode.
Last update to VirtualBox 4.1.6 installed the host ...
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Hibernation issues for windows 7 computer
I have a rather new custom built pc with an asus mobo (6 months).
The computer has issues waking up after hibernation. The power button refuses to wake the computer after hibernation/sleep mode from ...
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Hibernate Win 7 - performance improvement?
A typical hint for tuning Windows 7 performance is to switch off Hibernation. I do understand this will gain me some disk space, but why should it improve the overall performance?
Is there anything ...
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Hibernation in Windows 7 does not find the disk when resuming on RAID-0 Drive
I've been using hibernation on Windows 7 since I've have it, and it's been rock solid. Recently I got a new laptop with a couple of SSDs in a RAID-0 configuration and have installed Windows 7 on it.
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How can Windows Seven wake on computer when in Hibernate / S4 Mode?
Windows seven allows computer to wake up while being in hibernate/S4 Mode. For instance a task may be scheduled using Task Scheduler and computer wakes up to execute the task.
But according to ...
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Windows 7 fails to resume from hibernation with battery level low and power connected
I have Windows 7 ultimate on my Dell laptop. When I put it in sleep mode and battery is very low, it automatically goes to hibernation mode which is fine. But when I hit on the power button with cable ...
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Run script automatically when Windows goes into hibernate or wakes up?
I am using the Group-Policy feature in Windows-XP to run scripts automatically when you logon or logoff.
But is it also possible to make a script run automatically, whenever a Windows-xp machine is ...
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Ubuntu 11.10: put computer to sleep when inactive for 4 hours
In Ubuntu 11.10, under the power menu (in Ubuntu 11.10 this menu is found under system settings--it has a battery icon), I have the option to put the computer to sleep when inactive for 10 minutes, 30 ...
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Fedora: Hibernate doesn't work
On Hibernate (i.e. KDE Kickoff - Leave - Hibernate), I immediately get a black screen with those two lines:
PM: Syncing file systems ...
Freezing user space processes ...
A few seconds later, the ...
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How to really turn off hibernation in Win7
I've tried everything I can think off to turn off hibernation.
I have disabled it in power management, used powercfg -h off and it almost works. It works when I execute the command but when I reboot ...
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An app that preserves open documents states through most text viewers
Is there an application for Windows, that is able to reopen my word, adobe reader documents to the same pages they were in after system restart? I used to use hibernate to just get back to where I am ...
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What are reasons to use or don't use the hibernation in Debian?
Except the system, kernel upgrade when the restart is required. Are there any other reasons to use or not to use the hibernation?
I don't use the hibernation, because i fear that it'll bring me ...
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Lenovo R61: Cannot shutdown/hibernate
Using a Lenovo R61, anytime I shutdown/hibernate the laptop restarts.
Experience this problem on windows 7,8,Ubuntu
Changes immediately before the problem started:
Basically I have 2 HDD's, say ...
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Why do I have no hibernation mode in Windows 7?
I have installed Windows 7 two days ago.
Why is there no hibernation mode in my licensed Windows 7 Ultimate?
I have tried using these commands to enable it, but they didn't work:
powercfg -h on
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Automatic WakeUp from Hibernation on Windows 7
I scheduled a task in Windows 7 to play music at a particular time of the day. The scheduler allows a setting that makes the laptop power up from Sleep/Hibernation mode automagically. I guess that ...
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Laptop wakes from hibernation by itself [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I determine the cause of resuming from hibernation in Windows 7?
I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. First I was having a problem with the ...
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Why do I get the “dumping physical memory” screen after hibernation?
Lately I've been getting the dreaded blue screen "Dumping physical memory" after I try to restart my laptop from the hibernation state. I then have to restart the machine to get it operating again.
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Disallow shutdown/sleep/restart on OSX?
Is it possible to disable shutdown, sleep and restart for non-admin user on Mac OS X? (I am running Snow Leopard.)
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How To Wake Up Laptop Without Switching On The Screen?
I have setup a schedule for disk defragmenter but in Task Scheduler i cannot see the option for a laptop waking up and not switching screen. Since my laptop has always its lid closed, i don't want the ...
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In Linux, why does my battery last only 4 hours instead of the usual 10?
I decided to switch from Windows 7 (10 hours of battery work, suspend/hibernate modes work great - Asus U36Jc) to some Linux.
First there was Ubuntu 11.04 (with all current updates) – 4 hours ...
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Can I “pause” chkdsk by hibernating the computer?
So I have a situation and I need to figure out what to do about it before Hurricane Irene hits Saturday evening. I mentioned in another question that I'm running (the GUI equivalent of) chkdsk /r on a ...
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Laptop goes into hibernate when it is suspended (only happens on Wednesdays)
Every night I put my laptop into suspend mode and disconnect it from power and network. It seems that each Wednesday (it may not be every Wednesday but it is always on a Wednesday) morning I find ...
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Windows 7 low and critical battery levels cannot be set lower than 10%
How do I change the low and critical battery levels to below 10%? I understand that this is a reasonable limit for most portable computers, but what about those with large batteries? On my computer ...
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AVD uses 100% CPU after PC`s hibernation, how to solve?
When I hibernate my PC with running AVD and turn it on later, AVD uses 100% CPU and there are hard lags. How to solve this one if I want to continue using hibernation?
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How do I turn off wifi when my computer sleeps/hibernates?
My laptop is terribly slow when I wake from sleep or hibernate. I found that if I turn off the wifi before I sleep it is much faster when resuming from sleep. Is there a way to turn off wifi before ...
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Do locked pages get shredded from disk after resuming from suspend-to-disk?
Locked pages are sometimes used to store crypto keys like for Luks or for encfs and other sensitive things.
But when doing hibernate (without swap drive encryption) they get stored to disk ...
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How to execute a script on sleep, hibernate, resume, and shutdown
I keep alot of my classwork documents hosted on dropbox as well as my personal site for remote storage. This helps alot since I switch between an iPad, laptop and desktop, so there are no worries ...
