Win XP Home Edition. The PC is an ACPI one. Fresh from the store with 256 MB
RAM. Intel motherboard. How do I turn on the Hibernation option in Power
Mngt.

Some more background: [1] I also have some DirectX which for some reason
Google Earth can't work with (I saw that some people believe that Hibernation
problems are related to video cards). [2] I believe I saw somewhere that the
system has 4 GB of some sort of memory (but I can't find it again); in all
"common" places I am looking at (eg, System Properties/ Advanced /
Performance) I see the correct RAM and VM sizes.

Seems strange to me that with so many questions about Hibernation, MS has
not published a simple utility to diagnose and set it up right, instead there
are many bits and pieces of long troubleshooting and configurations texts to
set it up :-(

Open Power Options Properties...
Start | Run | Type: powercfg.cpl | Click OK |
Hibernate tab | Select: Enable hibernation

If the Hibernate tab is unavailable, your computer does not support this
feature.

To put your computer into hibernation, you must have a computer
whose components and BIOS support this option.

I.e. the BIOS and video drivers.

Use Hibernate and Standby
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hibernate.mspx

To automatically put your computer into hibernation
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...bernation.mspx

To manually put your computer into hibernation
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...bernate_w.mspx

Microsoft DirectX: Home Page
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx

Download details: DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:15347D16-AF5F-4B4F-9348-570F54140E46@microsoft.com,
sleepless <sleepless@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Win XP Home Edition. The PC is an ACPI one. Fresh from the store with
> 256 MB RAM. Intel motherboard. How do I turn on the Hibernation option
> in Power Mngt.
>
> Some more background: [1] I also have some DirectX which for some reason
> Google Earth can't work with (I saw that some people believe that
> Hibernation problems are related to video cards). [2] I believe I saw
> somewhere that the system has 4 GB of some sort of memory (but I can't
> find it again); in all "common" places I am looking at (eg, System
> Properties/ Advanced / Performance) I see the correct RAM and VM sizes.
>
> Seems strange to me that with so many questions about Hibernation, MS has
> not published a simple utility to diagnose and set it up right, instead
> there are many bits and pieces of long troubleshooting and configurations
> texts to set it up :-(