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  2. powercfg - Wikipedia

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    powercfg must be run from an elevated command prompt, and, under Windows XP, it requires workstation Administrator or power user rights. Power Schemes are configured on a per-user basis. The most common cause of problems with power saving and hibernation on Windows systems is an incompatible device driver.

  3. Hibernation (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP further improved support for hibernation. [14] Hibernation and resumption are much faster as memory pages are compressed using an improved algorithm; compression is overlapped with disk writes, unused memory pages are freed and DMA transfers are used during I/O. [ 15 ] hiberfil.sys contains further information including processor state.

  4. Sleep mode - Wikipedia

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    This approach combines the benefits of sleep mode and hibernation: The machine can resume instantaneously, but it can also be powered down completely (e.g. due to loss of power) without loss of data, because it is already effectively in a state of hibernation. This mode is called "hybrid sleep" in Microsoft Windows other than Windows XP.

  5. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    The exceptions to this are if it is selected during installation or already in use before an upgrade, but leaving the domain will still disable the feature. Windows Media Player 6.4, which was hidden in Windows XP and came shipped with Windows 2000 and can be installed on Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98, was removed.

  6. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring.

  7. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the search feature in Windows XP, Windows Search does not display information about the location being searched in the status bar of Windows Explorer. It is not possible to perform a case sensitive search using Windows Search. Unlike the search feature in Windows XP, Windows Search no longer searches an item's NTFS Alternate Data Stream.

  8. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft ... logoff, hibernation, and application ... Microsoft announced that it would disable the Windows Update service ...

  9. Shutdown (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP shutdown dialog box Windows 11 power menu, opened from the Start menu To shut down or power off a computer is to remove power from a computer's main components in a controlled way. After a computer is shut down, main components such as CPUs , RAM modules and hard disk drives are powered down, although some internal components, such ...