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Boot Snooze combines the goodness of hibernation and rebooting
You want to shut down your Windows PC for the day, but you also want it to start as quickly as possible tomorrow morning. Waiting 3-4 minutes to load Windows plus all of the apps that you run at startup just isn't a (good) option. What do you do? You probably just put your computer into sleep or hibernation mode. But there's a better way.When you constantly use sleep or hibernate, there's a good chance your computer could go days, weeks, or months without a reboot. And while that's not the end of the world, Windows generally works best when you do a reboot every now and again. Data gets cleared from cache files, Windows updates are applied, and programs and services that may have become stuck somewhere between the running and not-running state will be stopped and/or restarted.
Boot Snooze is a simple freeware app that combines the best aspects of a complete reboot with the speedy recovery of sleep or hibernate. Basically all you have to do is fire up this executable file and click the "restart then hibernate" or "restart then standby" option. Your computer will shut down, start up again, and then go into standby or hibernate mode so that when you're ready to start using your computer again you won't have to perform a cold boot.
The program presents you with a 10 minute countdown upon rebooting before hibernating. This allows you to change your mind if you need to. But you can also just start the app and walk away. When you come back your computer should be suspended.
It would be nice if Boot Snooze would let you adjust the amount of time shown on the countdown clock. 10 minutes might be overkill. But overall it's a handy little app, and it's hard to argue with the price. It's available as a free download from the Donation Coder forums.
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Subscribe to commentsAnnoying PosterFeb 4th 2010 8:21PM
this is the dumbest piece of shit software i have ever heard of. first of all, shutting down or restarting your computer is in the windows 98 days. windows xp and above are rock solid and will run for months if not years without needing a restart besides windows updates.
besides the fact that if you want to restart, the machine will automatically sleep after 20 minutes on its own.
another shitty software advertised on this site to clutter up the registry and hog resources.
FAIL
whiskeyFeb 4th 2010 8:50PM
Something tells me that you might be a bit annoyed. Could it be the fact that you don't really know what you are talking about? Real world usage (like working, playing, browsing other than just forums) requires your Windows machine to reboot every now and then. This is as much a fact as that the picture clearly uses the Zune visual style for WINDOWS XP (which is by far more in need of such little programs).
A memory hog you say? Facts or GTFO, dude!
Windows is far from rock solid. Windows itself will crap it's own pants from time to time on an almost regular basis.
The rest of the world will do just fine if you take your time to do something else than insulting your own intelligence with such eloquence.
whiskeyFeb 4th 2010 8:53PM
Facts, man... How much registry keys did you found it to write on your system? how much of a memory hog it is? What are your specs and what do you use your PC for?
Vista messes it's own pants on a regular basis, XP is far from rock solid and even Microsoft says that it needs to be rebooted from time to time, and since I haven't tested 7, I won't comment on that on. The fact is that there's people who will find this program useful.
Please, use your time in something more constructive instead of disproving your intelligence with such eloquence.
embarassedFeb 5th 2010 8:55AM
Actually he's spot on. From Windows 98 to XP they changed to the NT architecture. I've run both XP SP3 and Vista SP2 systems for months on end while gaming and installing/removing various programs. The only times I've had to reboot were for either BIOS upgrades or graphics driver updates.
Jody HolmesFeb 5th 2010 7:49AM
As the author of Boot Snooze, I can tell you that it writes exactly one registry entry in the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\Boot Snooze" key. This entry gets automatically deleted by Windows after it's ran, hence the "RunOnce". The application itself uses five or six megs of RAM and doesn't stay resident. Once it's done, it exits. You may think differently, but I hardly call that cluttering up the registry and being a resource hog.
In the latest version I just uploaded, I've added configurable delay timers for both before and after the reboot.
kostyalevinFeb 5th 2010 7:49AM
First, I'd like to say that this is not a bad idea at all. I just have two points:
1. What about login? Won't the restart just take you to the login screen? I find that most time is wasted by all the startup programs loading and not Windows.
2. I found this on the website: "Note: For hibernation to work, your computer must have "Enable hibernation" already checked under your Control Panel, Power Options, Hibernate tab. Otherwise your computer will probably just go into standby mode."
That "probably" doesn't exactly inspire confidence about the hibernation function. I personally just use standby, so it's not an issue for me, but it did give me pause.
All in all, this is a great find Brad!
sadasdsadsadFeb 5th 2010 7:50AM
Sounds like a good idea. Two things though:
- It does not seem to have a command line usage option. That makes it kind of useless for me (since I would want to start the reboot/hibernation from AutoHotKey).
- Sometimes it may happen that you still have something important open and forgot to save it. When you hibernate then, you may have forgotten, that what you actually do is a reboot and lose work. Probably happens very rarely (I always save, even before hibernating), but could cause trouble when you are forgetful. Any ideas for some kind of safety mechanism?
winstonFeb 5th 2010 1:24PM
I also have the same question as kostyalevin. It won't bypass the log-in screen will it?
Another ChrisFeb 10th 2010 10:13AM
I just tried this on my Windows 7 machine. Not only did it stop at the log in screen requiring me to log in myself, but then the UAC stopped it from running automatically. By the time I made two clicks, I might as well have hibernated it myself. (I do have the exe on my desktop, so I don't know if that made any difference?)
I do LOVE the idea and would use it every day . . . if it worked.