Saturday, December 25, 2010

Instant Startup and Shutdown

Well not really, I'm about to show you something that puts the computer to sleep and wakes it up.
Believe it or not, I have not shutdown my computer for 112 days. I created this 'mini program' which I run when I need to put the computer to sleep, and simply whenever I need to start it up I just press the space bar.

Usual Startup time: 30-80 seconds
Usual Shutdown time: 20-50 seconds

My Startup time: 0.97 seconds
My Shutdown time: 1.5 seconds

Here is how you make this simple program, it is EXTREMELY HELPFUL for those who are on the run or need instant access to a computer for business reasons etc.

1) Open notepad
2) Copy and paste this: RUNDLL32.EXE PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState
3) Save As.. Sleep.bat    (The .bat instead of .txt is very important)
4) Open the sleep.bat file and test it, it should make your computer sleep, press any key to wake it up.
5) Please tell me if this is more efficient for you, it is definetly for me!

20 comments:

  1. I thought you were going to suggest that I should delete system32!

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  2. this is useful info, but does it affect the computer in any ways?

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  3. Betta sp, im not sure about that, but ive been using it since i got the pc (5 years ago) no problems up to date. Maybe if you have a old computer or a heated area you shouldnt do it.

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  4. I've done some work to really optimize my startup and shutdown and don't use sleep ever because my laptop battery life sucks so much, but this would definitely be something I'd be into if I had a battery that could hold a charge, for sure

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  5. Maybe I shouldn't do this because my computer is pretty old >_<

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  6. I'm running an olde 900mhz computer. I don't think it could handle the increased pressure I already put on this baby.

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  7. An option like this for OSX would be great!

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  8. Sleepmode is handy, but it still draws a fair amount of power.

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  9. why not just use the sleepmode on your computer that does it automatically?

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  10. I thought the same as Suciô at first. Oh how are minds have been abused!

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  11. Hahah nah, as long as you don't enter del c:/windows into the script then you should be fine LOL =p

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  12. would you have any tips on how you could actually start up and shut down the computer faster without putting it to sleep? seeing as sleep mode isn't turning off the computer... even hibernating is better then sleep mode... only issue is that everything goes into ram :/

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  13. disregard that last message, that is hibernate, which is basically turning off the system, thanks, windows for some reason on this computer had disabled it o_O

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  15. sweet! But i already have a sleep button on my keyboard, so i just use that haha. thanks for the heads up though.

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