TSGL: Standby recovery

[Ron Grant]

Thanks,  I have also used a similar program called "end it all".   I will 
try this and see how it works.
Thanks,
Ron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Penlington" Subject: Re: TSGL: Standby recovery


> Tilman wrote:
>>Unfortunately I haven't got an idea about what may cause this>>
>
>
> When your computer goes into standby or hibernation, it places everything
> that's open into memory.
>
> When it re--opens, it needs some more available memory to do so--it's a
> rather complex trade-off. If you have a lot of things either running or
> running in the background, this may leave it with not enough memory to 
> pull
> itself back to life.
>
> It therefore helps to close down at least your running apps before going
> into standby, and maybe also check that the background stuff isn't taking
> up too much memory. XP seems to sort this out a bit better than previous
> systems, though it's not infallible.
>
> I use a tiny free utility called "Closeall" which is ideal for this. Put a
> shortcut to it on the desktop, create a keyboard key to the shortcut ( I
> use the "0" key on the numeric keyboard)--one click on that key and all
> running progs in the taskbar instantly close---but not the background
> stuff.  http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/close-all.html  .
>
> Don Penlington
>
>
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