After making Internet Explorer faster, its time to speed up your PC startup.Everyone like his/her PC to start quicker, but even after putting thousands of MB RAM PCs starts very slow. One of the best solution to start your PC quicker is to use Hibernation option. Many people keeps there PC in Standby mode, but the Standby mode eats up lots of power supply. Where as if your PC is in Hibernation mode, ZERO Power is needed. But PC starts much quicker.
Actually in Hibernation, Our OS (Windows) stores all the data of RAM into HDD, and when ever we start our PC (From Hibernation) it just restores all data into RAM, so no need of loading each program in memory, results in quicker start up.
Here are the steps to enable the Hibernation in Windows XP
1. Right click on Desktop , Select properties
2. Then go to Screensaver Tab
3. Click on power button (new window will pop up named “Power options property“)
4. Select Hibernate Tab
5. Check “Enable Hibernation” (If unchecked)
6. Then keep clicking OK’s
You should enable hibernation first
What should your computer do when you press Power button
To Hibernate the PC just Go o normal ShutDown menu and press SHIFT button, then the StandBy will turn into “Hibernate” Click on it . DONE 
Now its time to hibernate
Aug 20, 2008 at 4:20 pm
The new tag cloud is wonderful. and you have got quite a good rank in technorati.
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Aug 20, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Oh yes…
this trick really does work!
Even i dont turn my pc off but hibernate it.
It hibernates in just 5 to 6 seconds n wakes up in 10 seconds!
Thanks Chetan!
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Aug 21, 2008 at 12:01 am
@ Vinit Nair
Yeah, that new Tag cloud is really superb, i love it.
@Ashish
I never shutdown my PC, i always use to Hibernate it.
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Aug 21, 2008 at 9:58 am
Me too, never shut down it…;)
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Aug 21, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Chetan,
I think Hibernate has some problems. I have never felt comfortable with that option…
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Aug 25, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hi, thanks for bringing me back to this blog, this is a good blog. Sorry to hear you got phished. Did they hack in under you at network level or did you actually fall for a fake URI?
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May 23, 2010 at 12:35 pm
why it takes a less time?
i mean to say why pc take less on waking up after hibernating and takes more time if we reboot it?
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