hi, i have a winxp ntfs system, i already had 256mb ddr pc2100 ram, and upraded by adding an additional 512mb pc2100 stick, computer itself has been ok and is not giving me any grief

except, when i resume from my hibernate state, it takes significantly longer than it used to. I had a look around and noticed that the c:\hiberfil.sys had gron from abt 260mb ~~> 768mb! i suppose that this is why it takes longer, but cant i put a size limit on it? or even defragment it so that its at the begining of my drive? i tried a few free utilities that say they can defrag it but they dont work.

my c:\ drive 4.91Gb and has 2.56Gb free space, i use this partition only for winxp, to reduce fragmentation, and it has worked so far (had this configuration for 13months now), but this hibernation thing is realy pissing me off, i thought a ram upgrade is supposed to boost performance not slow it down! :mad:

When you hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system's memory to the hiberfil.sys file.
As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always equal the amount of physical memory in your system.
Thus, it now takes longer for the system to awaken from hibernation, especially if a lot of programs are loaded into the memory prior to going into hibernation.