Hibernation

[choudang]

hey, can anybody help me. when i enable my hibernation, it gives a message that procces is used by another device. what to do?

[Techmastro]

Same problem here.
Asked it before but no reply.
I am using 2.8GHz,256MB ram with Win xp sp2 installed.
Error message says" File is used by another program"
I have sufficent space in my c: drive. Could anybody help both of us.

[Vishal Gupta]

What do u mean by enabling hiberbation?
Do u mean by going to Desktop properties and in Power settings, enable Hibernation? or clicking on hibernate option in shutdown dialog box?

[vijay_7287]

u might be having two OS on the c drive and the page file might not be cleared ....

if that is the case use win-xp manager to clear the page file before shutdown ... and then enable hibernation in XP!!!!!

[Techmastro]

Originally Posted by vijay_7287

u might be having two OS on the c drive and the page file might not be cleared ....

if that is the case use win-xp manager to clear the page file before shutdown ... and then enable hibernation in XP!!!!!

Could you ellaborate how to clear pagefile before shutdown.

[Vishal Gupta]

Open regedit, and nevigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

In right-side pane, look at the DWORD value ClearPageFileAtShutdown and change its value to 1 (if not exist then create a new DWORD value).

[Techmastro]

I even tried above thing but same problem continue to haunt me.
I could not enable hibernation.

[Vishal Gupta]

First be more clear about ur problem, as I asked in my previous post!

Do u mean by going to Desktop properties and in Power settings, enable Hibernation? or clicking on hibernate option in shutdown dialog box?

U can try to disable the Hibernation, then reboot ur comp and try to delete the file hiber*.sys in C:\ drive ( I'm not sure about the name, cauz I don't use it ), then enable the hibernation again.
May be it solve the problem...

[Techmastro]

Yes you are right Vishal I am not able to enable Hibernation from my power settings.


I dont find any such file.

[Vishal Gupta]

If u hv dual boot system, then restart ur system in other OS and delete the file hiber*.sys in C:\ drive ( as I mentioned in my previous post ).
If u don't hv dual boot system, u can boot ur system using 98 setup CD and can delete the file in DOS.
Now I think u should be able to enable the Hibernation in XP...

[rajas700]

hibernation will suck ur memory.so dont do it offten.