On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:07 -0400, John Ferrell wrote:
> I keep a lot of processes open in Windows XP at a time. When I reboot, I lose track of what I was working on. The entity that is "I" is getting old and outdated but upgrade is not feasable at this point. It was created in 1940.
> 
> I seem to recall that at one time when I rebooted the system would bring up the applications that were active at shutdown. Is this do-able with XP?

I rarely reboot windows machines, when I shut them off I select
"hibernate". Hibernate is basically a dump of the active state of the
system to the hard drive. When you power up it reloads everything from
the hard drive, i.e. the contents of the memory, the state of hardware,
the state of the CPU, etc., and when the desktop appears it's as if you
never shut down.

Very nice feature, especially on laptops.

TTYL

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