How to make Windows Vista Start Faster (Almost Instantly)
You can optimize Vista all you want, possibly shaving 15 or 20 seconds off your boot time, or you can approach the problem from a different angle.
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Ubuntu’s Shutdown and Restart options
You can shut down or reboot your PC by selecting the System ➤ Quit menu option. Alternatively,
you can click the icon at the top-right corner of the screen. Either method will open a dialog box showing icons for various options, as follows and as shown in the next image.
hiberfil.sys What is it?
To avoid some of the drawbacks of Vista's Sleep power-saving mode, you can hibernate your PC. hiberfil.sys saves a copy of everything in your PC's memory (RAM) onto your hard disk before it shuts down.
Descriptions and Fixes of Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crash errors
There are a whole bunch of possible BSoD messages; probably more than a hundred. However, only about 20 happen frequently enough that they might imply that an actual problem exists. More than likely, you've seen atleast one of the following stop messages on your own system.