2Gb hiber.sys That was on the basis that a current home/specialist build - high performance system will have at least that much real memory
Agreed S3 and S1 are nice if you are going to keep the thing powered up, and have closed all work before you let it sleep But the main thing is to turn off hibernate and remove the file if you need the disk space! If you don't need the disk space just get defrag to put the hiber.sys file at the end of the partition forget about it until you do need space Running out of space is one reason I have a permanent pagefile - The system won't fail to boot because it cannot get enough pagefile space for the startup and I can always go back to a smaller, or system managed pagefile if I have to do a clearup to get some space JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:12 PM Subject: Re: Win2K over 98SE On 9/21/05, James Button wrote: 2Gb? hiber.sys file - well it takes slightly more than the system memory if > you have hibernate enabled > ( if you disable hibernate, check after the re-boot that it has deleted > the hiber.sys file) If your BIOS and power supply support it, I'd consider S3 standby (suspend-to-RAM) over hibernate. Rather than dump all the memory contents to your hard drive, the system trickles power to the RAM to keep it refreshed. The result is a standby/power off/power up/resume cycle that's a matter of seconds. It's not only much faster than hibernation, since your system doesn't have to POST, redetect all your drives, then load the hibernation file, but it also doesn't require any hard drive space. The disadvantage is that it's powering the RAM, so if the power goes out, you can't resume and have to do a full reboot. Since the drives, CPU, etc. are all powered down, though, this is mostly just an inconvenience and won't usually lead to data loss. That is, unless you have a habit of going into standby with open unsaved documents, which isn't a good thing to do even with hibernation. Most computers are set to use S1 standby (the type that keeps the computer running and just slows things down) in the BIOS by default, so you'll probably have to go into the BIOS to set it. Then, just Start/Shutdown/Standby and watch in amazement as your system shuts down in record time. -- Troy -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
