Comments on: The “Hibernate” function on Windows XP

By: Neville

Neville — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:42:54 +0000

I’ve got the same problem. I used to hibernate all the time and now my labtop won’t hibernate. It’s like it just forgot how to hibernate overnite. Sometimes the hibernate tab disappears off the the power management dialog too.

By: sorito

sorito — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:46:18 +0000

sorry it did work

By: sorito

sorito — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:30:27 +0000

it didnt work for me

By: Eerik

Eerik — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:53:02 +0000

@ Jono

Strange…
It has worked for everyone else.

By: Jono

Jono — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:11:42 +0000

Utter rubbish. Pressing shift does NOTHING on my XP SP3 machine. On my old laptop I could hibernate as often as I wanted; as me, myself nor I said, the PC needed to be shut down once a week or so or else it would slow down, but at least I didn’t have to wait 10 minutes for it to boot up every day. I’m gonna continue searching the web for a real answer now, i.e. how to add the hibernate option to the shutdown menu.

By: me, myself nor I

me, myself nor I — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:13 +0000

This is utter nonsense! Maybe you can’t hybernate multiple times without a service pack or with sp1, but i think every self-respecting person has upgraded their XP to sp2 or sp3. Maybe it’s just your freakin’ hardware, don’t blame XP. It is true that when you hibernate like ten times, your computer may suffer slowdown, but this slowdown is just as big as when you normally leave your computer on for 20 hours and open and close a lot of programs. So i’d say this article sucks. Nothing personal tough.
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By: john

john — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:57:21 +0000

I hibernate my xp laptop every day, several times a day. i think i may reboot it or shut it down once a month. works great.

By: Lening

Lening — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:50:07 +0000

I’ve tried it and it works great. Much faster than what I’m used to.

By: Techie Zone

Techie Zone — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:34:26 +0000

Tht’s a nice article. Just wanted to add my 2 cents on this.

The file responsible for hibernation n windows is hiberfil.sys and it resides in system root c:\hiberfil.sys and the size of ths file is almost same as the RAM in the PC.

Also in Vista you can do hibernation for as many time as u wish without shutting down the PC and I am sure in XP also we can do so. Here the existing hiberfil.sys file will be overwritten.

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By: Eerik

Eerik — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:33:33 +0000

What service pack do you have?

By: Wailana Yoga

Wailana Yoga — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:01:33 +0000

“But there is one problem with hibernate – you can only do it once. For some unexplained reason, Windows can’t hibernate severeral times in a row.”

I haven’t had any problems hibernating several times in a row. I do it all the time.

Does anyone else have that problem?