[CaptainHaplo]

Xp and Vista "hibernate" settings are great ideas - badly implemented.

For example - let me give you a perfect example using a software package I work with every day. Say you use a program that communicates through a serial port to another seperate device. Now, your system goes into hibernation, the serial port just went to sleep too. No biggie ya think?

Well, guess again. When you move the mouse to wake up your system - there sits your program and all your other stuff - but somehow things don't work right. You start getting weird address errors, or "cannot access" messages.

The reason - xp and vista wake up - but for whatever reason some associated "devices" - in this case the serial port - doesn't. You want to access whatever you have plugged in there? Reboot. Thats your only option - which makes the "sleep" mode rather useless.

This is but one example, but you get the idea....