can anyone tell me the setting to put my computer into hibernation mode after a period of inactivity? i cant seem to remember, and i changed it awhile back. thanks!

Start > control panel > performance and maintenance > power options > hibernate > check "enable hibernation" > apply > power schemes, you will now have another option visible, "system hibernates".

As soon as you enable hibernation you will see a drop in hard drive space equal to the amount of RAM you have in your system. So if you have 2 gig as I do you will see the free hard drive space drop by that amount when you enable hibernation. I keep it disabled and just use sleep/standby mode.

thanks guys, that did the trick i was looking for. i love this forum.

Hibernation is not good, so it's better to keep it disabled.

CeeCee, why is that? I agree, and have mine disabled, did it for a reason, don't remember why. Some disaster, I think.

It's a resource hog and disabling it frees up disk space.

Thanks.

I think I pointed this out in the third post

Anthony A, you did, in fact. Thanks for the information. I was trying to remember some other untoward consequence of allowing the computer to hibernate. . .I seem to remember that mine was in the middle of something, I was not attending it, and it nodded off. . .not sure, my brain is slowing down faster than Windows 98.