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Azbubu

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I don't like to leave my laptop/PC on standby/sleep/hibernate overnight. Is there any OS that restores your workspace as it was prior to shutting down? i.e all programs, documents, webpages etc that were open should automatically re-open when restarted.
 
My ubuntu does that, but that irritates the heck out of me. So i turned that feature off.
 
AstroTurf said:
Yes, my Windows 7 and ubuntu machines do that.
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So you can completely shut down your machine and have it restart with everything open the way it was? Pretty impressive. AFAIK OsX is only coming out with that next month with their "Resume" feature in Lion. :o
 
Serious question... How is that different from hibernate?
 
Hibernation is what the OP is looking for. He just doesnt know it.

AFAIK Hibernation takes a "screenshot" of your machine then shuts down.

There is a longer shut down time as it saves this "snapshot".
 
Quey_Quick said:
Hibernation is what the OP is looking for. He just doesnt know it.

AFAIK Hibernation takes a "screenshot" of your machine then shuts down.

There is a longer shut down time as it saves this "snapshot".
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:)
 
Use Hibernate. It saves the contents of your RAM to a file on your hard drive and completely turns off your machine. Once you boot again, it reads that file back into RAM.
 
Two Free Applications to restore all your running programs after a shutdown.

http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/sm...tore-all-running-programs-with-one-click.html

SmartClose: Close and Restore All Running Programs With One Click

There are many a times when you have to shut down or restart your system, while doing this you will have to save all your work and close all your applications. If you have been through the automatic update nightmare where you are regularly prompted to restart your system at regular intervals this program we are going to discuss would be a definite life saver.

SmartClose is a free software that will allow you to close all the running programs with one click and store it as a system snapshot. Once you have created the system snapshot with SmartClose you can easily shutdown or restart your system and restore the snapshot and you will have all your running programs back without having to go through the pain of opening each application.

SmartClose will automatically close all running programs, disable the screen saver, and halt all other processes that can interrupt without asking. Before SmartClose closes or disables anything, it will first save the current state of the system (running programs and screen saver) to a system snapshot, which can be opened and restored again by SmartClose.

Could be very useful when you need to go some place urgently but cannot leave your computer on. This is a definite life saver for me and will be part of my must have utilities list.
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http://dsync.blogspot.com/2011/04/reopen-your-running-applications-or.html

Reopen your running applications or files after restart/shutdown

Have you been in a situation whereby you are so reluctant to update any drivers or programs because you just have a lot of active program running and installing those might restart your PC, afterwhich you will need to re-open those programs again?

Fret not as the following marvellous freeware (yes you heard me alright, it's F-R-E-E! CacheMyWork will solve your worries. Not sure on how it works but it just works. All you need to do is tick on a list of active programs that are running that you would like to restore/reopen after restart. It does not just open the programs, but the last opened files as well, such as the powerpoint slide that you had been working on or the numerous tabs that you keep running on your browser.

Previously I had been putting my PC to sleep whenever I wanted to go to sleep because I don't want to keep track on the programs that I am currently running and need to reopen them upon booting my PC up. With CacheMyWork, I can now put my PC to shutdown with ease of mind.
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Quey_Quick said:
Hibernation is what the OP is looking for. He just doesnt know it.

AFAIK Hibernation takes a "screenshot" of your machine then shuts down.

There is a longer shut down time as it saves this "snapshot".
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No, it doesn't have to be hibernation. There are programs that will save your complete state even to restore after a full shut down.
See above.
 
juanvh said:
Use Hibernate. It saves the contents of your RAM to a file on your hard drive and completely turns off your machine. Once you boot again, it reads that file back into RAM.
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Oh ok. Didn't realise that hibernate completely shuts down your machine.
 
If you are using Windows 7, you can use "sleep", Windows 7 has a feature called 'hybrid sleep' (on by default), which keeps power to the ram (S3 power state) but also writes a copy to the hard drive, similar to "Hibernate" (S4 power state). So should you power on the PC, it will do a normal quick boot, but should power have been lost during the 'sleep' mode, it will resume the hibernated copy.
 
Garyvdh said:
No, there are differences between hibernate mode and a complete shutdown.
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Yes, in that the PC reads a hidden file back into memory on restarting from hibernation, but your computer is no more or less 'shut down' either way, surely?
 
enigma243 said:
Yes, in that the PC reads a hidden file back into memory on restarting from hibernation, but your computer is no more or less 'shut down' either way, surely?
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I wouldn't mind a tool where I can reboot my windows when it flakes and once it is booted will restore my open applications (particularly mail)
 
Pretty cool.

My laptop hasn't been turned off for about 2 weeks now.

Use it mainly as an e-book reader and really helps with saving the battery.
 
enigma243 said:
Yes, in that the PC reads a hidden file back into memory on restarting from hibernation, but your computer is no more or less 'shut down' either way, surely?
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Well yes, the visibile appearance of the machine is that it is shut down either way, but under the hood Windows uses different processes to handle the two different procedures.
Basically a shut down flushes the system and reboots it to a "fresh state", memory and hard disk are cleared and ready to open new programs.
With hibernation though the system is exactly in the same state as it was before, if there was a memory drain or an app crash before you shut down, that will be restored along with everything else, the system is not flushed.
 
warchylde said:
I wouldn't mind a tool where I can reboot my windows when it flakes and once it is booted will restore my open applications (particularly mail)
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um, take a look at the two apps I posted on the previous page.
Just open all the apps you want right where you want to save it, then take a snapshot of that state, and save it to be used at any stage in the future.
 
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