Hibernation takes more time in my Windows-XP Professional Workstation?

Hi

Very often I Hibernate my workstation , instead of shutting-down.

Usually my PC will hibernate within 1 minute ( or maximum of 80

seconds ) and go to power-off state ( even if 15 IE Windows are open , some downloads are in progress, Antivirus scan is in progress ...) .

But for the last two days , the hibernation takes almost 7 to 8

minutes.

No major applications installed or hardware changes done.

I close all applications and even stopped unnecessary Services - but still it takes 8 minutes to complete hibernate

There was enough free disk space in C Drive ( 2 GB free ); it requires 1 GB for the hiberfil.sys file.

Whereas , starting the PC ( from hibernate-state) , takes normal time , less than a minute.

Any clues , suggestions , solutions , recommendations will be highly appreciated.

thanks in advance!

Best Regards

VETRI

Hibernation takes more time in my Windows-XP Professional Workstation?ariel

Off the top of my head;

either you have increased the RAM in your computer, while not a major hardware change this will directly affect your hibernate process since hibernate is nothing more than writing out the CPU state and RAM contents to drive (well that is simplified a lot but you get the drift) so more RAM = more writing, OR your drive has become very fragmented (and really dude, 2 Gb is not a lot in this day and age), OR your hard drive is going to meet its maker soon.

good luck!