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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: GillE on August 17, 2011, 16:34

Title: Hibernation
Post by: GillE on August 17, 2011, 16:34

I have a Vista machine which does not like to hibernate.  Whenever I set it to sleep or hibernate, it re-starts.  Clearly, some program is running in the background and preventing hibernation.  Is there an easy way to find out which program it is?

Title: Re: Hibernation
Post by: Rik on August 17, 2011, 16:39

I'm not sure there's an easy way, Gill. I'd start by looking in Task Manager to see what's running, then use MSConfig to selectively stop programs loading at startup until you find the culprit.

Title: Re: Hibernation
Post by: Clive on August 17, 2011, 21:54

Press Alt Ctrl and delete once Gill and when the box opens click on Applications. 

Title: Re: Hibernation
Post by: GillE on August 17, 2011, 22:50

Quite right, Clive.  Sixty four processes and all with abbreviations which don't tell you what any of them are doing  ::).  Aren't pooters wonderful?

Title: Re: Hibernation
Post by: Simon on August 17, 2011, 23:43

I used to use a program called EndItAll2, which would close down all running apps at the click of a button.  Might be worth seeking out.  :)

Title: Re: Hibernation
Post by: Clive on August 18, 2011, 09:25

Quote from: GillE on August 17, 2011, 22:50

Quite right, Clive.  Sixty four processes and all with abbreviations which don't tell you what any of them are doing  ::).  Aren't pooters wonderful?

You need to click the first box Gill.  That shows you the programs running on your machine.  The processes are different and a list of possibilities with what they are can be found at http://www.tasklist.org/ 

Title: Re: Hibernation
Post by: pctech on August 20, 2011, 21:08

Might also be worth checking your disk space.

The contents of RAM along with any dedicated video memory is written to disk.

If memory serves me correctly (its been a while since I've had to set these up which I used to have to do on laptops that ran 95 you need roughly double the amount of RAM in the system as free space so if you have 512 MB of RAM you ned about 1 GB of space.