just curious on if ppl think hibernating or shuting down windows is best i tested both and found hibernating twice as fast turning off (6 seconds) to 12 seconds shutdown.it turns on 4 times faster after hibernating.
View 1 RepliesI can't shoutdown & hibernate my laptop (windows XP SP2 Whit laset updates). when i click on shutdown button windows do noting.
View 1 Replies View RelatedGreetings. This subject has been well discussed but I haven't seen this particular problem. Hibernate has been working fine on my fairly state of the art PC (WinXP up-to-date, nothing changed, added or removed recently) for ages. Suddenly, on wakeup, it gets to desktop, icons and taskbar and bye bye, shuts down. Just once it has hung before the icons and taskbar phase.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI asked this on the Hardware forum, but I think its more suitable here:Whenever I try and shut my computer down, or put it into hibernate, it restarts the computer: Power button - restarts when it should turn it off Start>Turn Off Computer>Turn Off - Restarts it Hibernate - The 'Hibernating' bar reaches the end, then it restarts. When it restarts after hibernate, everything appears already loaded (just as if I had brought it out of hibernate the proper way).I have tried all the common problem, which I found on google (Such as the uatomatic restart problem), all to no effect.I have installed no new software recently, and changed no settings that I know of.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThis is weird. I have to go through the shutdown procedure twice, i.e., Start/Shut Down/Shut Down and click Ok, then Start/Shut Down/Shut Down and click Ok again. It will then shutdown properly. The same thing happens when I try to "Restart." After doing the first shutdown sequence, everything is normal. I can open programs, surf the web, etc. It's as if I never tried to shut it down at all. Only after the second shutdown procedure will it shutdown fully. One note: When I go through the first shutdown sequence, my taskbar pops up and the desktop is darkened. After clicking Ok, the taskbar autohides and my desktop returns to its normal color.I have only had this problem for the last month or two. Before that, all was fine. It's not critical since I can shut it down. It's just annoying to have to do it twice.I have Windows 2000 Pro, SP4, build 5.00.2195.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen attempting to "shutdown" or "reboot", I have to do it twice. When I select "Start" then either shutdown or reboot, my desktop will flicker a couple of times, and then nothing appears to happen. I must select "start" again and then either shutdown or reboot and then they will work as expected.
View 7 Replies View RelatedRecently I installed a Linksys WMP54G wireless network adapter on my desktop (HP Pavilion a556x with Windows XP Home installed). My computer will not hibernate on its own. Settings in power options are correct (I think) and the hibernation is turned on. I looked in the properties settings on the wireless adapter and there is no power management tab.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to leave on my computer when i am asleep but i don't have the choice of choosing stand by or hibernate, it is grayed out. I have about 45GB of free Hard Drive space and i am stumped on how to fixed this.
View 8 Replies View RelatedAfter a huge upgrade and fresh XP installation (up to SP2), my computer won't standby hibernate. The only parts that remained were the HDs, RAID card, and power supply. MOBO was upgraded to X38, GPU to GF8800GT, and CPU is now Dual Core. Prior to the upgrade, my PC could go into standby. Now it is "grayed out."I went to power management, hibernation tab is not there. I tried reinstalling MOBO drivers, same thing. My comp used to be able to do this in XP. Well, I read about it, and supposedly, dual core cannot go into standby (or at least winxp doesn't want to allow the user to do this with DualC). Is that true? Edit: I even tried the hotfix and disabling terminal services. No effect.I tried apmstat -v, and it said that this is an ACPI machine and that APM is not relevant.
View 14 Replies View RelatedHow can I create a shortcut on my desktop of Hibernating the computer. Also give me the shortcut of shutting down the computer. The shortcut should be such that as soon as I click on it, the computer should go into hybernation without any further conformation.
View 11 Replies View RelatedIs it safe 2 hibernate the computer instead of shutting it down always. Are there any demrits of hibernating excluding the extra use of harddisk space
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm starting to get the message 'Preparing to Hibernate' and then the computer shuts down. Using Windows XP on a Compaq Presario with 896 Ram.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a laptop (windows xp) and when i close the lid it goes into stand by automatically, and successfully, but then starts back up within 2-10 seconds for no reason.same case with hibernation, as soon as the computer is in hibernation it starts up again. i went to windows website but it suggests this has to do 3d screen savers which i dont use. this seems like a common problem and supposedly has to do with winfixer, sysprotect or winantivirus spyware. my computer had had vundo trojan.
View 3 Replies View Relatedcomputer running XP is turning itself on at 1:00PM after being placed in hibernate. The scheduler had items for this time (which I am now changing). Isn't the computer completely OFF when hibernated? What mechanism does it have for turning itself on if the CPU supposedly is powered down?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhy won`t my personal computer automatically standby or hibernate when i use the windows xp 3d screen-saver?
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhen I click on the Stand By button my computer well hibernate. I have been using Stand By for 3 years now. The button actually says Stand By, It says it is going into stand by mode. But it goes into Hibernate mode. Before when I put it in Stand By mode, the fans would all turn off. Now the fan doesnt turn off at all. From what I understand is that Hibernate mode saves your current settings. I have click the Stand By button a number of times with my web browser open and after I wake up from stand by (or what it is says is stand by) my web browser is still on the screen.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI know that this question has been asked but I could not find an answer that fixed the problem, so I thought I might try again. Whenever I try to hibernate my computer, the message, "Insufficient system resources to complete the API." comes up. Afterwards, anything concerning hibernation disappear and the hibernation button cannot be clicked. My system details are as follows: Dell Inspiron 9300 running Windows XP Media Center Edition. 1.73 ghz processor with 1.50 gb of ram. (I have heard that having over 1.0 gb of ram might cause this, but I could not find anything that could fix it.)
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have windows XP on my laptop and it just refuses to enter in a standby mode, neither Hibernate mode.Usually it runs very normally but every time I try to put it on standby I get a blue error screen that says that my system have to shut down because of a serious error and that I have to check the bios. After that I just switch off the button and have to turn it off!
View 5 Replies View RelatedI did a clean install of XP Pro on my Dell and now I always get "It is now safe to shutdown your computer" when I power it down. I was running 98se and it always shut down by itself so I'm sure the bios supports this as some have suggested to me.
View 10 Replies View Relatedmy computer it won't shut down or restart i have verizon and it comes wit a internet security suite and it has a anitvirus on it. i wouldn't update so i uninstalled it and installed it again but when its done it says u need to restart the computer so the programs can work rite but the cmputer won't restart it jus stays there and when i hit shutdown it jus stays there too. its like my computer won't shutdown or restart when i want it to.
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor Almost 3 Weeks Now And Getting Worse, When I Shutdown My Computer At night And In The Morning When I Turn It On, Is Extremely Difficult To Get My Computer To Start Up, I've Tried Unplugging Electrical Cords SEveral Times,Waiting Awhile, It takes About An Hour And Half To get it to finally Turn On, When it Finally Turns On,It Boots Up Perfectly As Always, This Problem Has Been Happening Lately Only When I Start It Up in the morning, I Don't think it is the motherboard as If it we're then the computer wouldn't start up at all
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running a computer on Windows XP originally designed for Windows 98. Once I put it on there everytime I go to shutdown the computer will say "It is safe to turn off your computer" and I have to shut it down manually by the power button. The older operating systems would shut down automatically when I went to shut down but for some reason XP won't on this computer. How can I make the computer shutdown automatically?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 've a genuine retail xp running in two machines. One is pentium lll and another one is Core 2 Duo ...Both were running fine till yesterday ... The XP in C2D acts strange from today morning It freezes on shutdown ... All the every thing was fine ...I am sure there was no Virus (Using NOD32 Smart Security Suite) After many attempts to fix it. I lost my patience and decided to format C: drive and do a clean install ... I 've gone that way ...Now the fresh Installed xp also freezes on shutdown How's about this problem? Isit releated to hardware or software? Tried to fix by leaving the DVD drive empty & with a CD, Both didn't worked
View 14 Replies View RelatedWouldn’t it be great to easily shut down or restart your computer with a simple keystroke? Well now you can! You know about “Ctrl, Alt, Delete”, but what about “Ctrl, Alt, END”?Here's how it's done. The instructions are quite simple, and as long as you follow along, this should be rather painless! Please follow step by step!1. Right click on your desktop. Go to new, and then click on shortcut.2. A window comes up. Type in “shutdown” (without quotes) add a space and enter one of the following commands.
View 9 Replies View Relatedmy son has been shutting down the computer recently from his account while i have been logged on. I have been downloading programs and such that i want to finish as quickly as possible, thus the comp needs to stay on. Is there a way to lock the computer from shutting down or something?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy computer keeps shutting down and rebooting. I thought it was over heating so I opend it up and cleaned all the dust out but no luck. the last couple of times it did it i did get a message from Nortons saying it was repairing drive C. Any ideas. I have a Gateway running Windows XP
View 14 Replies View RelatedI was installing some windows updates and my laptop restarted. Now I cannot install any updates nor can I update my IE. Please any help is greatly needed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedNow that i removed most of the malware my computer had in the past 2 weeks or so, another problem emerged, a slow computer. The computer was much faster before i downloaded these hoards of anti-malware programs such as SuperAntiSpyware, WinPFind3u, Avenger, HostsXpert, CCLeaner, and HiJackThis (in addition to Spybot S & D and AdAware which i originally had. I Once measured the time it takes for the computer to restart.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an intel pentium4 system with 506 processor with intel motherboard (d101ggc) running on windows xp home with 512mb memory with one sata hard disk and two pat hard disks.Of late I have been having problems while shutting down after installing a software. the blue screen reads as follows."A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. ****DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUA IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS STOP ERROR SCREEN, RESTAART YOUR COMPUTER. iF THIS SCREEN APPEAR AGAIN FOLLOW THESE STEPS.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there anyway I can make my computer automatically shut down after x amount of time not using it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHaving a little trouble figuring out why my start up and shutdown has slowed,Pc running a little slower than normal but I did recently install Ms office.
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