16Dec/080
Windows XP Hibernate and reboot
I use windows and linux on my HTPC - linux for XBMC, and windows for wintendo.
I have a python script that can be run from xbmc's menu that (using grub's grub-set-default ) reboots the machine into windows for game playing for one boot only. when I quit wintendo, the machine reboots into linux again, yay.
I found a completely undocumented trick recently though. If you create a new DWORD registry key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
named PowerPolicySimulate, and assign this key the hex value 0x1000. When you hibernate the system reboots afterwards instead of shutting down. This reduces the time to switch between OS's dramatically.
