Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Microsoft, Windows, Vista
Categories: Hardware
Deactivating Hibernation
If you have a large amount of system memory installed, it is definitely worth your while to take a closer look at Windows Hibernate feature. The hiberfil.sys, to which the entire content of the system memory is copied when hibernation is activated, is always just as large as the physical memory. In other words, if your system is equipped with 8 GB of RAM, youre wasting the same amount on your hard drive if you never use this feature.
Additionally, with computers nowadays coming equipped with more and more memory, the usefulness of the hibernation feature is increasingly being called into question. After all, it takes more time to write 8 GB of data to the hard drive when the system shuts down and then read it back when it starts up again than simply restarting Windows. Of course, the time the whole process takes depends on the amount of memory in use by the system. If only 1 GB is in actual use, only these files are written to disk.
Windows Vista no longer offers a control panel setting for deactivating the Hibernate feature the way that Windows XP did. Nonetheless, there is still a method to switch the option off. In the Start/Run menu, type the following command:
powercfg -H off
The command
powercfg -H on
allows you to re-activate Hibernate at any time. If UAC is enabled on your system, then the command line has to be opened with administrative privileges.
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I like the charts on the max supported ram per OS, but you need to show the user why they may need 8gb of ram, instead of "because you can" being the reason.
tsebbens' comment is pretty encouraging though. Encoding and gaming are two things I do quite often. But the fact that you can do both at the same time really a consequence of the 8GB or RAM or is it due to the processor (I'm guessing it's a quad?)?
My question is, where does readyboost fit in. I have vista home premium 32bit with a Q6600, and a 2 GB USB for ready boost. About to swap it with a 4 GB readyboost stick, will an 8 GB USB make a difference??
what more ram does is prevent Slow downs due to running low on ram so pageing happens
allso one other Point that is an small error about going past 4gb on an 32bit program it cant happen
if it gets correted an 32Bit program can only allocate 4gb of VM space even with 8gb of ram No page file would be used at all as the program can only use 4gb of space (in games i have only seen this happen on Supreme commander when there is an High amount of units on the map can use quite alot of ram or allacate alot of Vm space taht can be fixed by patching the game.exe file to make it support Large mode so it can use upto 4gb {default is norm only 2gb})
as an test on my pc readyboost makes my games judder when ever the flash drive is accessed