On 08/04/2018 23:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Managed to trip the workshop breaker today which crashed out the old PC
running Win7.

When I restarted it, it said 'resuming Windows' and got to the desktop far
quicker than normal. Why?

The PC was already in a low power hibernate mode with session saved to
disk when the breaker went.

If the PC had been active when the power went off suddenly then it would
have needed to rebuild some files and take an age or two to do it.

They boot even faster if you swap spinning rust for solid state.

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Regards,
Martin Brown