Ok here's what I've found. On a system that doesn't have sufficient hard drive space to stash the hibernate file, you're essentially screwed.
It will "appear" to enter hibernate mode, and auto-restart once it figures out there's not enough room to stash everything on your hard drive in this nifty hibernate file. Trial & error here.
I was moving the mouse or pressing a key on the keyboard long before it figured this out, so it "appeared" the system was re-starting due to my moving the mouse or pressing a key.
It just took a very long time for Windows to figure out there wasn't enough hard drive space to store this huge hibernate file.
Switched to an XP system, with a boat-load of hard drive space available, and bingo. It does indeed give me the progress bar thing when entering hibernate, and it won't resume without a press on the power button.
With stand by selected, it resumes as advertised with a mouse or key-press, but only if these are enabled in device manager.
This is great BUT, it's totally worthless if there's not enough space on a hard drive to store the silly (and incredibly HUGE) hibernate file before hibernate shutdown, so this option is essentially worthless for the application. We really have no idea if a PC this will be installed on has the resources for hibernate to work. It would be awesome if it wasn't limited to hard drive space available.
Huge bummer. It looked so easy.
Edit: Yes. It does go through the bios screen when restarting from hibernate. Then it resumes with everything on-screen just like it was before entering hibernate.
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