Re: Windows suspend 95/98

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From: letoured_at_sover.net
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 22:52:51 EDT


Chris Schumann" <cschumann_at_twp-llc.com> said:

>> Perhaps I should have been clear on the subject.
>> I can recover from hibernate in 5 seconds, in Win3.1.1.
>> Windows 95, takes much longer, windows 98, you just
>> as well re-boot the machine.

>My ThinkPad 600X manual states that Win98 takes much longer to resume from
>suspend and it's a function of the OS, not the machine. I suspect it has more
>robust recovery for things like networks and such.

>Hibernate should function the same as suspend, except for saving and
>restoring the hibernation file. That file, by the way, is sized according to
>your RAM only. The operating system has no bearing on that, nor does the OS
>even know about hibernation.

>> The new beta windows, that might never see the market, is so big that
>a 701
>> cannot create a HIB file large enough.

>Huh? Again, the HIB file should be sized according to how much RAM you have.
>Keep in mind that thinkpad's like FAT filesystems for the hibernation file,
>and older thinkpad's must have a FAT16 partition.

This must be a limitation of WinX. OS2 can hibernate to HPFS.

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