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September 29, 2005 at 2:44 am #20109AqeelParticipant
Whenever I try to hibernate my PC it hibernates really very slow, at the last stage of hibernation when it shows the status indicater it takes almost 26 seconds while I’ve seen other PCs hibernating with in 3 to 5 seconds.
I’m using Intel 1.7 GHz, D845 GLLY, 256 MB SD RAM, SeaGate 40 G.B H.D.D.
September 29, 2005 at 3:44 am #130876SpikeMemberYou want my advice? Don’t Hibernate. It’s like a fake shutdown, you’re not fooling anyone, though. You’re better off just to leave it on and lock it (Windows key + L), or just shutting it down.
September 29, 2005 at 7:32 pm #130874DavidParticipantSpike wrote:You want my advice? Don’t Hibernate. It’s like a fake shutdown, you’re not fooling anyone, though. You’re better off just to leave it on and lock it (Windows key + L), or just shutting it down.Right, way to not answer the question.
Aqeel – are you experiencing slow disk access times during your windows session? Also, have you run chkdisk and defragged your drive? The last stage of hibernate is taking everything that’s in RAM and dumping it to the hibernation file on the hard drive, so the bottleneck is likely to be the disk.
September 30, 2005 at 2:03 am #130878AqeelParticipantOriginally Posted by Spike
You want my advice? Don’t Hibernate. It’s like a fake shutdown, you’re not fooling anyone, though. You’re better off just to leave it on and lock it (Windows key + L), or just shutting it downActually Spike I’m living a in a difficult and differnet environment. There are regular power failures on daily bases, this problem is not just with me it is almost with the whole devolping world, *so I’m satisfied 😉 I’m not alone facing this* So locking the PC and leaving it on for a long time is not possible.
I use to Hibernate it because it starts faster and also shuts down faster. Also I don’t have to close my open programs and on next startup not to open them. So this is not really the solution for me :crying:Orignally Posted by David
Aqeel – are you experiencing slow disk access times during your windows session? Also, have you run chkdisk and defragged your drive? The last stage of hibernate is taking everything that’s in RAM and dumping it to the hibernation file on the hard drive, so the bottleneck is likely to be the disk.I’d defragmented my hard drive and also run the chkdisk with built in windows fragmentation and checkdisk utilities but nothing had happened. It’s slow as ever.
The windows slow disk access– I really feels just once when playing MP3 songs on Windows Media Player, when the media player tries to play the next song disk access get slow.
I’m thinking about two things now!!
1) To check and defragment the hard drive with any other software.
2) To check my RAM may be it would be causing the problem.
But I don’t know really what softwares to use for it… Googling them is not a big thing, I want to know a few softwares which you’d personaly tried. 🙂September 30, 2005 at 7:35 am #130875HasanMemberThe concept of defragmentation is basically the same no matter what software you’re using. The one bundled with Windows is intelligent enough so I dont think you need any other software for that.
You should rather try out System Mechanic and cleanup your system i.e. optimize registry; remove invalid entries in different areas and delete unimportant programs in startup.
Does shutting down the computer once and then hibernating the next time bring any change in the speed?September 30, 2005 at 9:19 pm #130879AqeelParticipantToday I performed Hard drive tests using Seagate online tools, it says it’s 100% fine. Haven’t tested RAM yet but I’m using Free RAM XP Pro at the moment.
I’d already removed unimportant programs from startup, disabled many services today, such as Windows Help feature. I’m already running a highly tweaked OS.
I haven’t tried yet any system mechanic software but Hasan the problems seems with Hardware not the software.
At the moment downloading Sytem Mechanic see how it goes…at present: no change, facing the problem.
October 28, 2005 at 1:42 am #130882GoldenKnight8987MemberI dont know if it would help, but I personally think anyone with XP should have at least 512 MB RAM. thats just my opinion. as far as hibernating, I dont see anything wrong with hibernating. it’s handy for school, especially after class when I need to get out real fast. 🙂
November 16, 2005 at 9:27 am #130880AqeelParticipantI’ve got an e-mail from a guest reader about this query, Mr. Santosh Kumar according to him…..
Hi,
I saw your question regarding the slow hibernation of your Win XP machine. I had been facing the same prob. for the past month and met the same failure as you did after trying just about everything. Finally today I stumbled on the solution which I believe will apply to your comp. also.
Right click on the disk drive icon (in explorer) of the disk which contains the hibernation file – called ‘hiberfil.sys’. From the context menu choose ‘properties’. In the properties window which appears, choose the ‘hardware’ tab. The concerned haddisk should already be selected. Click the properties button. In the new window that appears, click the ‘policies’ tab. In the tab, if the “enable write caching on the disk” is not selected, select it and click OK and close the windows one after the other. Now try hibernating. By my reckoning, it should now hibernate at full speed…
I thought I could send this msg. over google talk but there seems to be no options for chatting. I think the program may have sent an invite to you. If you feel like it, feel free to decline.
Best regards,
SantoshBut… mine problem is still there the options he is talking about are off…
November 16, 2005 at 7:16 pm #130877SpikeMemberAre you an Administrator on your computer? I think those options are disabled unless you’re an administrator and can change them.
November 16, 2005 at 9:49 pm #130883GoldenKnight8987MemberI dont even think it would matter to Ageel if he/she is an administrator or not… because it looks as if even if it were enabled to select one, it would be selected anyways….. so I dont think that is your problem. I am going to look further into the problem to see if I can come up with anything.
Best of luck!
P.S. Is windows up to date with the patches/updates etc??
November 20, 2005 at 10:56 am #130881AqeelParticipantYes I’m administrater on my Computer and windows is up to date with the patches.
January 6, 2007 at 12:14 am #130884mhanmoreMemberBut usually a lot more that just 20 seconds. See PGP Forum :: View topic – Suspend to Disk very slow after PGP installation
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