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    Extremely long hibernate in Windows XP

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Hello-, Jun 17, 2007.

  1. Hello-

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    Instead of seconds it now takes minutes to hibernate which I desperately need everywhere I go. Everything was working fine until a few days ago.

    It may have been the June windows updates I installed. I also installed driver cleaner and cleaned up previous ati video drivers. Installed a few games... I can't remember much else other than that.

    I tried searching the MS knowledge base but since when did MS ever help anyone... google, yahoo, no help there.

    Can anyone help me out?

    P.S. I have 2gb of ram
     
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  2. odin243

    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    That happened to me a few months ago, I finally had to reformant and reinstall XP, if that helps.
     
    odin243, Jun 17, 2007
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Is the hibernation file fragmented? Did you recently increase the RAM?

    Is the slow speed during the hibernation process or is there a delay before hibernation starts?

    Try running pagedefrag which, I think, will also defrag the hibernation file. However, you really need to have this and the paging file near the start of the disk where data transfer is fastest.

    John
     
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  4. Hello-

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    The hibernation file is probably fragmented a bit. I added an extra 1gb stick a month ago. Coming out of hibernation is real fast as it always is, just going in that's slow. Everything else, restart, shutdown, standby are all fast and work fine.

    I'll try out pagedefrag but couldn't I just use perfectdisk or diskkeeper to defrag those files?

    Not sure how a fragmented pagefile/hibernation file would suddenly increase the hibernation time to from ~10seconds to 5-10 minutes.
     
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  5. Hello-

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    I read something about windows clearing the pagefile on shutdown and I made sure that was turned off (default) which it was. Pagedefrag is running right now, really hope it helps!
     
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    I found the solution!!!
    http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=92534

    I installed Planetside and it was causing my computer to freeze and crash a lot. So I decided to turn off write caching so nothing bad would happen to my files while I was troubleshooting the problem with planetside. I had no idea this would impact the hibernation process.

    I'm happy once again, thanks for your help and quick replies!
     
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    BrokenAnimator Newbie

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    AWSOME!!!

    I had this problem for about a month and it was really annoying. I remember turning off the disk caching as well because I had issues with my DVD drive. I never would of thought it would impact the hibernation process so much.

    Thanks! This solution worked like a charm.
     
    BrokenAnimator, Jun 19, 2007
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