telling the computer to hibernate when you already have preventshibernate from working

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yawnmoth

Sometimes, I'll hit the hibernate item from the drop down menu in the
Task Manager and a few minutes later (ie. far longer than it normally
takes), I hit it again thinking maybe my first initial hitting of it
didn't get registered or something.

Only problem is... when I do this, it doesn't hibernate at all.

I do it because the computer doesn't hibernate within a few minutes.
I then do something that takes about twenty minutes, come back, and
find it hasn't hibernated at all. Maybe it never would have
hibernated in the first place, but, either way, it is kinda annoying,
and does leave me wondering if there's anything I can do about it or
just to speed hibernate up under these circumstances. I mean,
usually, it is faster, so why would it, at times, be slower?
 
You may have a program that is not shutting down, such as a virus scanning
program.
To find, in task manager find out what's running before clicking hibernate.
Then, shut that program down
and click hibernate. Repeat this method till running program is found.
 
You may have a program that is not shutting down, such as a virus scanning
program.
To find, in task manager find out what's running before clicking hibernate.
Then, shut that program down
and click hibernate. Repeat this method till running program is found.
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Shut that program down? What's the point of hibernate if you have to
shut programs down? The reason I do hibernate in the first place is
so that I *don't* have to do that...
 
You may have a program that is not shutting down, such as a virus scanning
program.
To find, in task manager find out what's running before clicking hibernate.
Then, shut that program down
and click hibernate. Repeat this method till running program is found.
Click to expand...

Shut that program down? What's the point of hibernate if you have to
shut programs down? The reason I do hibernate in the first place is
so that I *don't* have to do that...
 
yawnmoth said:
Shut that program down? What's the point of hibernate if you have to
shut programs down? The reason I do hibernate in the first place is
so that I *don't* have to do that...
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Try another method to hibernate. On my laptop i can hibernate it by closing
the lid, pressing the power button once, or by clicking Start\Turn Off
Computer and pressing the shift key will toggle Hibernate\Standby options.

By the way i also have been hibernating my computer for yers now
but have never done it via Task Manager. But i have never shutdown that way
either.

To hibernate my computer every night I use Shutter.exe. The
program automatically hibernates at whatever time you select. I don't have to
touch a thing.. Windows own rundll can also do this via a scheduled task
assuming your computer will hibernate. I use Shutter because Windows rundll
program interferes with my
wake-up task(it won't run).
Shutter:http://www.den4b.com/screenshots.php?project=Shutter
 
Would stop or quiesce be a better term?
You may have a program that is not shutting down, such as a virus scanning
program.
To find, in task manager find out what's running before clicking
hibernate.
Then, shut that program down
and click hibernate. Repeat this method till running program is found.
Click to expand...

Shut that program down? What's the point of hibernate if you have to
shut programs down? The reason I do hibernate in the first place is
so that I *don't* have to do that...
 
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