Should I use KB909095 to fix hibernate problem

[Antony Scerri]

I have had two laptops now which have failed to hibernate properly because of
2Gb or more of RAM. The first is nearly four years old and I applied KB909095
to it and that fixed the problem. My latest laptop only a few months old has
4GB of RAM and is now suffering the same problem. I resisted applying
KB909095 because the EXEs in question appear to have been replaced by later
versions. However I know there are different services branches also, so not
sure whether one is really an update of the other.

Does anyone know if its safe to apply the hotfix now given the newer
versions of files already installed? I really would like to sort this out on
my new laptop as it fails to hibernate everytime I try at the moment after a
couple of hours using it.

Thanks

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

System Restore should have a point to go back to if the update fails. You
could also consider a backup.

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[Antony Scerri]

Sorry to sound negative but I'm aware of the recovery options, wasn't too
concerned about that really. Its whether in applying the hotfix i'll be
undoing/compromising other fixs/updates that I may need. Simply based on
version numbers I dont want to install an older version of the files in
question. Chances are everything would appear to run as normal but without
knowing whats its undoing who knows.

I havent seen anything else about this other than a couple of comments from
users that this does conflict with another security update that released
later versions of the same files. Give the KB909095 hotfix was released in
August 2006 thats quite a way back.

T