Save time booting up your computer

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Jan — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:52:32 GMT

While I use this feature most of the time on my personal notebook, I cant use that on my business one. On startup our software management gives us the newest software and I wouldnt get that from hibernate mode.

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Rachel — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:15:00 GMT

Great tip! My only problem being the Internet connection disconnects, which is quite frustrating. Any suggestions?

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re: Save time booting up your computer

Rachel — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:37:13 GMT

Great tip! My only problem being is that the internet conection always disconnects when i resume power. Any suggestions?

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Frank — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:50:52 GMT

It's still a good idea to save all data first. Open files can go bad if there is a problem going into or comming out of hibernation.

It's also good to reboot every so often to allow the PC to clean its self from hibernation.

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Sleep_Master — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:01:31 GMT

i cant Hibernate 2 time, 2nd time will never turn off pc

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Rick Bachenskie — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:18:30 GMT

Get tip to get you into Hibernate mode, what about getting out of hibernate mode? I used to do that with another computer, but it would only come out of hibernate if a special key on my keyboard was depressed. It eventually stopped working so I stopped using the hibernate option. If there is another way to revive the hibernating computer then please let me know.

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juniorken — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:52:22 GMT

nice but doesn't that conflict with some networkprocesses? F.i. if you use client software that needs to sync with a server (fi. using Outlook in combination with Exchange).

Nice option but I'm afraid it's not suitable for all office-environments. And never forget that things like telnetsessions might need a manual logout-command before doing stuff like that!

greetz,

jr.

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mba — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:21:07 GMT

I used to do that too, every day. Hibernate is great, when it works.

Hibernate has had bugs in it when you have a gig of RAM or more. I had to get a hotfix patch to Windows xp, in order to get that to even work (1.5gb ram).

Sometimes I click 'Hibernate', and the OS tries to hibernate but cannot. I think it depends on what is currently running. Some apps or services, I guess, are not 'hibernate-friendly'. When it fails this way, the choice 'hibernate' drops off the list of shut down choices--only to return after next reboot.

When hibernate fails to un-hibernate... then you lose everything, as if you just turned it off.

I found it safer, and less aggravating, to buy a new, faster PC. A clean hard drive goes a long way to speeding up the reboot process.

It used to take 15 minutes to reboot, on a laptop (100gb HD@7200rpm, 1.5gb ram, centrino 2.0 2MB cache). Now it takes under 1 minute, (under 2, if you count launching outlook). The new machine is a desktop P4 3.2 dualcore, 2GB ram, raid 1 OS, raid 0 data.

The desktop was cheaper by $1000.

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James Rochford — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:48:31 GMT

Jason,

Great idea. I also have found it helpful to lock the computer by pressing [Windows] + L. When I come back to my computer, I just log back in and I'm up and running. Of course, this requires the computer to be left on all night. Another suggestion is to modify the 'msconfig' file from the RUN command. By adjusting the programs that start up (many are not needed), Windows boots much faster. Thanks for your tip, by the way.

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Herbert Hall — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:20:24 GMT

I think thhis is a "neat" idea and saaaves the "fiddling" on the morning start up.

Thanks for the tip. Herb

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Cour Noyer — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:36:10 GMT

My computer has been working setiathome packets for several years. Won't using the hibernate command shutdown the setiathome connection?

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Janice Claydon — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:09:31 GMT

It is not neccesary to hold down the shift key when the "turn off computer" screen comes up. Simply hit the "h" key and hibernation will happen (prividing it is properly set in power options, as explained).

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Michael P. McDonald — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:46:32 GMT

This is really neat! Now I don't have to go find something else to do for several minutes while I boot up. Thank you!

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Mohammad AtharUddin — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:08:28 GMT

Thank You Very Much... Its Helping Me

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Usman — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:50:39 GMT

Does the hibernation mode effect the hard disk in anyway or otherwise compromise the performance of your PC.

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carlos — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:52:37 GMT

How about using msconfig.exe to disable programs that launch at startup?

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Michael Bogumill — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:00:05 GMT

I found this to be a useful tip. Now I know the difference between Hibernate and Standby and how to bring up the Hibernate option. I also now understand what it does and how it differs from the other shut down options.

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Brian Copeland — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:27:35 GMT

Using Hibernation is a nice stopgap measure when you need quicker bootup. But that does not address the underlying issue. If your computer takes that long to boot then you probably have not enough RAM for the applications you use.

If adding more RAM is impractical, then eliminate unnecessary services and startup programs. The built-in msconfig applet makes it easy to turn off unwnated startup modules and services (click Start... Run... type 'msconfig', then click OK).

Be certain to defragment your drive frequently.

Also you should have an expert examine your disk interface driver and BIOS settings to ensure the drive is communicating at its highest speed. Have your expert check virtual memory settings, and generally clean up unwanted files and registry settings, too.

These measures can handily make your computer boot three times faster, and generally run twice as fast.

Consider substituting smaller programs for the memory hogs you are currently using. For instance, I have found that some antivirus programs require much less memory and CPU time than others. After right-sizing programs for given memory amount, the computer boot time is almost as short as returning from hibernation.

Back in Windows 3.1 days, my 66 MHz 80486 would boot in 7 seconds! Today my 3.0 GHz hyperthreaded P4 takes nearly 30 seconds. That is too long for me. I can't imagine waiting 10 minutes. Get some help!

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john — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:48:27 GMT

yes, but if you but it into hibernate mode, then it uses up harddrive and ram space. Very frustrating when my render times increase, just because I left the computer in hibernation.

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tjrose61@msn.com — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:40:01 GMT

I often put my computer into hibernation, somehow it restarts itself instead of shutting down, hibernation state. I come back in the morning to find my computer on. Why?

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David — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:01:36 GMT

Unfortunately, if you hibernate your computer each time instead of booting down, Windows XP does not have an opportunity to make a backup of the system registry. I hibernate my computer during the day, but at night, I make sure to shut down my computer.

David Bailey, MCP

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Ahsan Iqbal — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:21:10 GMT

Well it is really good to put your computer in hibernation mode. But you can do one another thing to make your PC starting up faster. To do it, just simply close the option to start the program at Window startup in all programs. All messengers, security softwares, downloaders and anyother program which starts at startup. Just uncheck this option in all programs. Have fun

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June McDade — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:03:54 GMT

I do not know my URL. I am having many problems with my PC. I am a new comer to the computer world and am having difficulty trying to fix my 173 registry ERRORS. When I click on to a Registry Cleaner, they scan my computer, then tell me here & how many errors, then tell me I must give them my Credit Card #'s to buy a clean up. I do not even have a credit card. How can I repair my PC free????? Can you help me??? I'm paying a lot of money for an internet access that I can't even get to.

Thank you for your time,

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Prasad — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:31:29 GMT

Doesnt work well on My Compaq V3018TU Notebook

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Raido — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:52:45 GMT

I don't use hilbernate - next best thing is standby.

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Brian — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:45:22 GMT

have been using hibernation for sometime now with no problems. marksman

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Vasily Konstantinov (Russia) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:12:42 GMT

I want to tell you about more effective method – Stand by. With it you can resume Windows for about 5 seconds because data (running apps and services) is written to RAM but not to HDD.

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wouter balens — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:44:36 GMT

hey, im a tech student in belgium and used to hybernate al the times (going from class to class and such) but recently i learned that if u want ur laptop (in my case) to last, hybernation is not gonna help you. Basically, u turn off your computer but your hard disk does keep working. So if you hybernate at night, and leave it like that until the next morning, its not good. I wish microsoft officials could post something on this topic, and help prove my point

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Elmer — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:27:58 GMT

you can hibernate faster by holding down the fn key and pressing f1.

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Josh Heer — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:15:38 GMT

I found that if you enter into your bios you can find a power management section and you can set your computer up so that it boots at a specific time in the day, for me it is 30 min before i get to work just in case i arrive early and my computer will have some time to start. Then before i leave during the day i turn off my computer and arrive the next day to have my computer back up and waiting for me.

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Joe Senatra Moline, Illinois — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:23:41 GMT

I have been using Hibernate for a long time with no problems.

I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard and set up the sleep button to Hibernate.

I did learn two other ways from this

tip on how to turn start Hibernate.

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Jan-yngve — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:29:01 GMT

But hibernate takes a lot of memory and resources..

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bill — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:43:09 GMT

Iput my computer in standby mode for 30 min. then it goes into hibernation.Is any thing wrong with that? Iam farely new with computers, someone let me know if I`amm doing something wrong.

Thank you

bill

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Mark — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:21:56 GMT

I knew about hibernation, but never used it. I just tried it and my desktop was up in about 35 seconds compared to almost 2.5 minutes when I normally boot-up. I'll be using hibernation from now on. Stupid me for not ever trying it before.

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John Membrino — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:11:42 GMT

This thread deals with hibernate, I know, but I prefer "Standby". The only thing is that I don't know if Standby actually shuts down my Regular and (connected) External Hardrives.

I hope it does, but would appreciate someone who knows letting me know if it does or if I'm just fooling my self that it does.

Thanx, John

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Theo de Bray (UK) — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:29:45 GMT

You sad stressers. If you are that pressed for time, go in to work a bit earlier, switch on your 'puter & take a few minutes to chill out, have a 2nd coffee, boot up your brain, review/organise your plan for the day, & then you are ready to GO. Not the answer that may want to hear, but it WORKS.

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Doris O'Sullivan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:03:23 GMT

To do this, Do I have to have your K-Board or Vista?

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LUCKY — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:10:18 GMT

I DID AS U WROTE BUT AFTER TURNING OFF

MY PC AUTOMACTALLY RESTARTS.

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Gokul — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:16:55 GMT

Very good thing ,which i was missing till now. Thanx for this

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johncrossler — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:29:25 GMT

I am rather selective about what is running on my computer.

I only allow the security programs to auto start. This cuts Boot time to nothing.

I open each program as i am about to us it after boot up.

Also increase the ram from 216 or 512 to 2 to 4 gigs. This will greatly help bott up time.

regards

John

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Jim — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:18:08 GMT

I use standby overnight, seems to be good. What is the difference between hibernate and standby ? Jim

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Ron — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:22:27 GMT

Go to start then run and type in regedit

go to hokey key user then menu dispaly change value that is 400 to 10

and pc will then boot faster.

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dale kreiser — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:35:26 GMT

Oh my god, just use "stand by" - it never fails! This powers down the computer to a minimun and does not need to boot. Go into the "control panel", then "performance and maintenance", then "power options". You should customize this to your needs.

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Mary — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:21:52 GMT

Great suggestion. Thanks. I knew about it but I was not sure of how it work. Thanks because now I know. I apreciate your info. to us.

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Louis — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:41:40 GMT

Maybe it work! But do u know that it raises your energy cost! Making your PC running all night long will also harms to PC... Just my opinions.Try using msconfig.exe to disable programs that launch at startup or use some tuneup tools, that may help.

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Wesley Crusher — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:34:45 GMT

Hibernate puts a ton of info into ram, good bye ram. OH well. Shutting down and restarting everyday is hard on the hardware, so have the screen saver running. This eats up some system resources as well but... And, And, put the screen saver to Blank... haveing cute little things floating around the screen doesn't save anything it makes things work, like the video processing and ram, also dim the white areas of open windows to reduce eye strain...on the desktop right click an open area-properties-advanced-click on the white open area of the example that is shown of what the windows will or do look like-click Color 1 the white little box above the black one-click Other-on the right there is a vertical gradated bar, slide the arrow down a couple spaces then click OK-OK-Ok and wa la dimmed white instead of in your face beamer. You can also change the white to any color under the rainbow, even black with white letters or hot pink with lime green letters. this is the area where you can change the window boarders to any custom color you want like St. Pattys day greens or Saddam is dead red white and blue ok then carry on.

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Juan.c — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:23:02 GMT

The hibernation Solutions works. spiffy.

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Bhupendra — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:58:51 GMT

When I first used this tip it worked great.But when i tried again,an error messege like this appears-Power Policy manager unable to reserve hibernate file,cause it is been used by some other process- Please help

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James — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:59:24 GMT

Put the computer on standby, when you want it to start back up, tap ctrl key or something to tell the computer "I want on." takes a couple to turn stuff back on.

During standby, the HDD is primarily shut down, and the ram is being refreshed so that the data is not lost. Usually, you are returned back to your desktop like nothing happened.

You may want to disable the movement of the mouse for standby wakeup. In case a janitor, or cat, bumps the desk or mouse.

But, in the end, everything depends on your needs, like rendering, I wouldn't have much of anything startup except for the render processes. If your rendering, it would be best to allow the CPU to be used to its maximum extent, like disabling virus scanners during rendering will decrease render times.

If in a business, opening Outlook and Powerpoint and various other things; these can take a good deal of time just because it has to load all of that data from the hard drive to the RAM. It would be faster to defragment, then manually launch each program individually. This saves on time a little, and on the HDD so the actuators are not trying to feed 5 or 6 programs data from various sectors all across the cylinders. Average seek time of a modern HDD at 7200 RPM is about >10ms (or 0.1 seconds or more [depends on HDD size]): multiply this to however many programs that are requesting data, and you get a lot of wasted internal bandwidth.

Sure, hibernate is good if you want to power down the PC, but in all truth, a PC in standby (or idle) uses next to no power. The monitors on the other hand are the real electricity hogs (and running a process that uses 100% of CPU).

Personally, I would just shut it down at night. PCs run better when it is a cold boot because the system has cooled off, and no ram is allocated and not in use (Windows automatically allocates some RAM at startup).

Example:

If you leave a router (or Internet modem) on for months, your connection will slow down. This is a fact. To fix this, usually just restarting it will make it work faster.

If rendering, (if possible) save it for night-time, that way your day-time work isn't hampered.

Or...

You could utilize the Scheduled Tasks and have it startup all your programs that you would otherwise do manually (after turning your PC on). Like Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Openoffice.org, 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Outlook, Photoshop CS, Premier Pro, GIMP, etc., etc., etc. However, one setback would be if you arrived late (PC wouldn't be on, thus Scheduled Tasks would fail because it cannot run). Pay the janitor some money to turn your PC on for you if you really can't arrive 15 minutes early.

Upgrade the PC. RAM is almost always the cause for a slow PC (HDD transfer and CPU speed is also a consideration, but RAM is more important), and often fixed by just adding a 256 MB module (depending on programs started up).

Hopefully my advice will help.

But if you explicitly depend on standby or hibernate, your performance will decrease just as the router does. So shutting down the PC, then turning it back on will help.

Personally, I run XP SP 1 Home on my home PC with only 11 processes (no task manager [ctrl-shift-esc]) and I can start anything I want in little time.

P4 3.066GHz

0.97GB RAM (some addresses are dead)

160 GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD

End Of Rant

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Farfour — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:10:39 GMT

Forget Standby, forget hibernation... clean shut down is the best thing, flushs out your and if u've sustained some hd errors, they'll be detected at next boot. if u have a 1gb or more of ram, disable the page file entirely (or place it on a secondary drive - not much my recommendation but have even seen it sized 8Gb on a 4 attached drive RAID-0 setup). Your system will boot faster and u'll feel the difference in apps too.

standby can kill ur pc overtime, wether u leave it on for hours or just a few minutes and hibernation kills ur hd... the more ram u got the bigger the time required to write a bigger resume file. and with time u'll notice the slower the hibernation process has become.

My 2 cents

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hector — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:20:38 GMT

I like hibernation, cause I dont like to consume power unnecessarily. I am having a problem with hibernation (it takes 10 minutes to save the ram, which makes no sense. maybe a bios problem?). In standby my problem is that when I place my laptop in my backpack... the fan goes off...I worry about overheating.