Nice of Microsoft to screw up the sleep/hibernation feature when they released Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. However, it’s even nicer of them not to fix it… that is unless you manual do it yourself.

So, if you’ve been having trouble getting your computer to wake up from sleep and/or hibernation, check “this”:1 fix out over at the Microsoft support site. Symptoms of this problem are:

bq.. Your Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)-based computer may unexpectedly stop responding or experience random memory corruption when you resume from standby or from hibernation.

p. Of course, both of my Windows XP boxes suffer from these symptoms. I’ve downloaded the fix on one of my machines, and it seems to have done the trick.

Of course, the bigger fix is Vista… or perhaps the more permanent fix of “OS X”:2.

[2(Fix your Windows problems)]http://www.apple.com/macosx/

[1(Get your hibernation working again)]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889673