Aboutviksra Expertise Howdi! I am viksra (yes, it is a lower-case letter- hehe). I can answer any, and I mean ANY question that is MSN related or deals with MSN. I can answer questions on (including, but not limited to):
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Question I've recently started putting my computer into Hibernate mode. Otherwise, it seems to take forever to load my Start Menu programs (though they are pared down to the basics) and then even longer to load my MSN home page. It is accessed via Verizon FIoS. Any idea why it takes so long? Is it trying to load all my Favorites and all my e-mails that are in folders? I have a lot of Favorites and a lot of e-mails that are saved in folders I've created. I have McAfee Security, run Windows XP, Svc Pk 2. I also have Webroot Spy Sweeper in my start up menu. I have a Pentium(R)4 CPU, running at 2.80 GHz, with a 160 GB hard drive and I have only used 32 GB of that. I also have 512 MB RAM. Would it be helpful to increase my RAM (or is it DDRAM??) I clean out temp and history files at least every other day, defrag regularly, use CCleaner, Cleanup and other programs to help me do that since no one task seems to get them all. In addition, when I'm in MSN, I often get the message "MSN has encountered a problem and needs to shut down." It's very frustrating. Any ideas?
Answer Hey Katy. Your computer specs are fine. Hibernate mode will make everything load up quicker than when you do a shutdown because what hibernate mode does is save the current state of everything that is on your computer into memory, and completely powers off. So, the next time you go to power on from hibernate mode, everything will load up instantly from memory. When you do a shutdown, the computer powers off completely like hibernate mode, but it does not save everything to memory like hibernate mode does. It is best to use shutdown after a few days of using hibernate, so that way you can refresh your computers memory. Sometimes after using a few days of hibernate mode, you will notice that some windows will behave strangely or will not update. This can be fixed by doing a simple shutdown and restart. Standby mode, unlike hibernate and shutdown, puts your computer in a low-power state and returns back to what you were doing when you take it out of standby. With the current amount of memory that you have, it's not necessary to increase it, however, adding more memory is never a bad thing. When you defrag, make sure that you close all applications. Defrag moves files around and organizes them, and running defrag with applications open could result in errors because the applications use files to run. If you continue to receive that error in MSN even after not running defrag while running MSN, a simple solution would be to reinstall MSN. That seems to take care of most problems quickly.
