Hello Any help would be appreciated. I've slimmed down Vista Ultimate to make it faster. Unfortunately, as this aim was achieved, Vista cannot go to hibernation any more. UnvLite'ed installation was OK.

Now the screen fades out for 2 seconds and the word "Hibernating" can be seen, then it immediately returns me to desktop. Just no errors - nothing.

Sleep does work, however. I haven't configured what can cause this.

If anybody has a clue, please comment.

My preset is attached here.

Last_Session.ini

Edited November 4, 200817 yr by Double Impact

I don't have a clue, but...

I'd start off by not removing any display drivers, storage drivers, windows services. You may also want to keep several system components as well. I realize some aren't necessary, but for the sake of troubleshooting, keep them intact (for now). You know what to do next...

I also have same problem on my Vaio. The laptop doesn't get hibernated, though I have checked all dependencies, vaio drivers etc. May be one of the unlisted dependency is to be blamed.

i don't have a problem on my OLD IBM ThinkPad T42. i think i removed the video drivers but i'm not certain. i will confirm and repost here.

I'm having the same problem as you. I can't hibernate at all (I don't even see the words...). My desktop can't also (also vLited), but I don't case about this one. I think it's definitely vLite that is doing this problem.

Can you post your session.ini spacesurfer?

Edited November 13, 200817 yr by El Barry

Yes, I confirmed that I did remove the video drivers with vLite and I CAN hibernate and sleep. But I did install the latest graphics drivers so that my be your problem.

I have got the option of "hibernate" on my laptop, but clicking it just logs me off and brings me back to logon screen after a brief black screen, but nothing beyond that. This behaviour is there on the desktop too. A similar session on xp enables hibernation. This seems really funny! Can someone tell another dependency?

Last_Session.ini

If we rule out Accessories, Drivers, Languages, Hardware Support, Network and Multimedia (as the problem is not likely there) and with the last_session of clavicle and mine, we have a posibility of this:

;# Services #

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)

Error Reporting

Interactive Services Detection

Quality Windows Audio Video Experience

Remote Registry

Routing and Remote Access

Secondary Logon

Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)

Universal Plug and Play (UPNP)

WebDAV (WebClient)

Windows Search

;# System #

Beep

Crash Dump Support

Digital Locker

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Disk Defragmenter

Disk Quota

Guided Help

Help

IMAPIv2 Burning Support

Malicious Software Removal Tool

Manual Install (Setup.exe)

Microsoft Agent

Natural Language

Parental Controls

Remote Differential Compression

Run a legacy CPL elevated

Security Center

Software Quality Management (SQM)

Sync Center

Tablet PC

Windows Backup

Windows Defender

Windows Easy Transfer

Windows SAT (Performance Index)

Does hibernating works in a VM? EDIT: no

Edited November 14, 200817 yr by El Barry

it's strange that i have the same problem on my desktop but not on my laptop although the vLited was teh same.

I just reinstalled vista on my desktop.

Used powercfg -h on

Reboot

Tried to hibernate using

Shutdown /h

What I got was : File not found

Now which file is MIA.

You must disable hybrid sleep to be able to hibernate (if you don't have the option in the shutdown menu, you can't). Also, there is a hibfile.sys (or something like that) in C:\ (file hidden).

Yes, hybrid sleep is off.

Shutdown menu has hibernate option

I wanted to see some error, so I used cmd

I get

"The system cannot find the file specified.(2)"

Hiberfil.sys is obviously present!

btw, I get to see this message in cmd window only after log back. This cmd console is same which was used to run hibernation command!

What I feel is it might be pointing out to some other dependency probably!

Just tried the command in the cmd windows and I got the same result as you clavicle. Strange, very strange.

If device drivers can be ruled out, I'd take a closer look at the Services.

You must disable hybrid sleep to be able to hibernate (if you don't have the option in the shutdown menu, you can't). Also, there is a hibfile.sys (or something like that) in C:\ (file hidden).

Not true. I just tried it using shutdown /h from the command prompt. Hybrid sleep is enabled, btw.

I have mine setup so that the system goes to sleep after 1 hour, and hibernates after 2 hours (of inactivity).