I will give hibernate a try. It works well on my laptop. I don't take the main system down often but I think it a good idea when thunderstorms are about. Last night I noticed the noise level getting increasingly worse on the Amateur Radio rig and nearly got caught with every thing active in a storm. John Ferrell http://DixieNC.US ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ferrell" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:07 AM Subject: [ot]: Rebooting Windows >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and outdated but upgrade is not feasable at this point.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? > > > John Ferrell > http://DixieNC.US > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist