Dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows: any way to avoid closing all my applications in Mac OS X?

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I have a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6 and a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition. If I'm on Windows, I can easily go back to OS X without losing any of my open applications by using Hibernate. Mac OS X, however, doesn't let you hibernate the computer manually, and I have to close and later reopen all my applications when going from Mac OS X to Windows, which is annoying. Is there any way to force Mac OS X into Safe Sleep, or perhaps a better solution to this problem altogether? Thank you!

Archagon

Posted 2010-10-19T23:16:54.377

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There are programs that will send the computer into Safe Sleep for you, for example the Deep Sleep widget for Dashboard.

– Chealion – 2010-10-20T00:40:21.317

VMware Fusion and Parallels allow you to run your Boot Camp Windows installation as a virtual machine with Mac OS X as the host system. Depending on what you want to do in Boot Camp (basically everything except games and resource-intensive applications), this might be handy. – Daniel Beck – 2010-10-20T01:01:38.130

I can't speak for the OP but the reason why I would like this functionality is because I want to play a game in Windows. :) Unfortunately, merely relaunching my applications (Terminal and MacVim especially) doesn't restore them to the state that I'm looking for. – dash-tom-bang – 2010-11-06T05:41:12.067

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http://wiredupandfiredup.co.uk/Relaunch/

Relaunch saves you time by taking Snapshots of which applications you are using, and starts them back up for you.

user31752

Posted 2010-10-19T23:16:54.377

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Dead link renders answer useless - maybe should be deleted? – nhed – 2016-08-30T15:33:54.023

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