I bought a high end Sony Vaio laptop about six months ago; since I have had it, it's been nothing but a pain in the ***! The task bar icons and notification icons would just disappear, rendering what it controlled "useless." I could go into the Sony Vaio restore program, reinstall what went away, and still, nothing would come back. Through the past six months, I believe I have done a complete system restore about five times![:@] always having the same crap happen over and over again.

I finally took it into bestbuy where I bought it from, and had one of their computer nerds check it out, and run a complete diagnosis on it. They gave it back to me saying there was nothing wrong with it! "Nothing wrong with it?!!!" Then I showed him what it was actually doing. That guy was completely puzzled! He was digging into the system files himself and couldn't get it to work right.

After who knows how long, I was talking about shutting it down, and mentioning that I usually put it into hibernation instead of "standby", or "off." "Oh you shouldn't do that" he says. Microsoft didn't design their hibernation mode very well, and some computers get really messed up when you use it. Ok, I guess I'll go home, restore my operating system once more, and deactivate hibernation.

WOO-HOO!!! After a week, everything is working normally! I have yet to see any programs disappear!

I doubt that many of you people that just read this will care, but maybe it'll help somebody that has been having wierd things happen to their laptop without knowing why.

Thanks Microsoft for your excellent software![sm=type.gif][sm=shootshoot.gif]

 

I don't use hibernation, thanks for the heads up tho

 

ditto^^^^^^^^^^

 

Dam I am changing mine right now, thanks.

 

I do not hibernate either. On or Off here, but thanks for the info.

 

He told me when windows hibernates, it writes an "exact copy" of your current system onto a small area of your hard drive before shutting down. Somehow a bug or glitch in the system doesn't always record everything perfectly, then when you turn your computer back on, windows will bring up the F*cked up version of your operating system. I don't think there is a cure for it either, except for doing a complete system restore.

 

and that is why I got burned out of computer repair

 

i usually log off or turn off

 

i use the hibernate function on xp pro....so far i havent had an issue...i think haha oh well

 

If it is a problem with the Windows XP Operating System, wouldn't it effect desktop computers as well?

Tim