Laptop Hibernation Problem

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Have newish Vaio, 1.83GHz 2Gb ram, 28Gb free on C 47avail, 38Gb free on D 40avail.
Sometimes when I ask it to hibernate it refuses saying "not enough system resources to complete the API"
What is it trying to tell me?
 
Try using the "Stand By" option instead of the "Hibernate" option. It keeps the memory in use instead of saving all 2GB of it to the harddrive. You can still keep it that way for days.
 
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Try using the "Stand By" option instead of the "Hibernate" option. It keeps the memory in use instead of saving all 2GB of it to the harddrive. You can still keep it that way for days.

[/ QUOTE ]Standby is not a good idea for laptops. If the batteries go a bit on the flat side, you will lose all in-memory info. Hibernate saves the desktop to disk and can restore whenever your batteries or power are available, even if batteries flattened or removed in the meantime.
 
Yes in theory, no in the real world as far as my experience goes. I only use stand by and I even leave the computer on doing things at night without being plugged in, so when the battery goes flat it goes into standy by automatically and the memory is still intact when I plug it in at work hours later. There is a big safety margin built in, the computer shuts off way before the battery is really dead and it still can keep the memory alive for a long time.

Hibernation takes far more time to start the computer up and is quite foul prone anyway.

Oh, and it does not save the _desktop_ to disk but the whole RAM memory. This is really needed very rarely as you always can start the computer up the normal way again. You will only lose data not saved and no one should leave a computer in stand by mode (or any mode) without regularly saving open documents.
 
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