LFS requires me to unlock it every time after I have used hibernate or sleep on 64bit Vista SP1. I have read the FAQ and know that restarting the system helps, but is this really the only way?

I always hibernate/sleep instead of turning the computer off entirely so I can resume my work quickly and it's really annoying having to wait several minutes every time I want to play LFS while the computer restarts and also have to close-restart my other programs.

Has it been investigated what is causing this and will it be fixed in coming versions or is there some other way to get it to unlock without a restart?

Does it also lock your account if you restart first and then unlock? So basically make sure you're unlocking the installation after a fresh boot, not after resuming from hibernation.

If that doesn't work then I fear there's nothing you can do. Since this is a known issue to the devs for a very long time, I'm pretty sure they already tried fixing it but couldn't. Otherwise they wouldn't have resorted to officially adopting the reboot workaround, I reckon.

Well if I restart then it gets unlocked by itself. Will try to restart, locking it myself and unlocking again but I doubt it will make any difference.

If they are detecting configuration change, then there must me some parameter that differs after hibernation and it should be possible to take this into account?

Tried it and sure enough.. didn't help. Still locks itself after every hibernation/sleep

Check to see if your LFS folder is set as read only. Right click on the LFS folder, go to Properties and look to see what the "Read Only" check box says. If it's either got a tick or a square in it change that to empty.

Taken from this thread

I have already tried that, unfortunately with no help.

As far as I know, when system boots after hibernation it uses different startup entry, try to clen or repair you startup entries. Try vistaboot or easybcd

Could you please explain exactly what you mean by that? I am not using multiple OS's or anything like that. Searched google for startup entries and such, but don't understand what you mean.

Off to a restart again to play some LFS

Where is the game installed?..

Also, do you close LFS before hibernating or just leave it running?

UAC is known to cause problems with some game configs....

Either turning UAC off or installing the game into Users/Public/ folder sometimes helps....

I have the same problem as above.

Everytime I go to play LFS, after rebooting I need to re unlock it again.

UAC is off. I shut down LFS before Hiber or restart or shutdown.

This happended after it upgraded to latest patch this week (seeing I just built new system last week)

I now cant play as I have used my 3 unlocks already.

Using Windows 7 64bit,
Intel i5 750, 4GB, Radeon 4870

Edit: I just checked individual files, each file comes up as read only (not when you select them all at once), and when turned readonly off, check again back on read only??

Going to down load new installation and try from scratch.

God damn it Installed w7 x64 and now have same problem, restart doesn't help. I thought, you can turn lfs on before hibernate and when you'll resume your pc, lfs will be on and unlocked, didn't try so don't know what if you restart lfs after resuming os.

The very annoying problem remains and it seems I am not the only one. Do the devs have any opinion on this other that having to restart every time as instructed in FAQ?

Where is LFS installed. If you have it installed in program files or other "system areas" you are just asking for pain and suffering due to how Windows treats this area. Vista will create shadow directories that hold your "personal" versions of files you change and this can cause big issues.

Try this.

1) Move LFS to C:/LFS or somethere in your user directory.
2) Unlock LFS
3) Reboot Vista (MEII)

Now all the files should be valid and in place. LFS should play without the need to unlock. You should now be able to hibernate/sleep ok.

If not I would say switch to 32bit Vista.

There is still no compelling reason to run 64bit and the driver support is also second rate. XP64 and Vista64 are still really "second class" releases as far as support goes, they are just not mainstream enough to get the attention required.

MS are already trying to wash their hands clean from the turd that is Vista. They have even publicly stated that Vista was a "less good" release. All work has been focused on Win7 so Vista64 really has moved to the sideline as minorty release like XP64.

LFS is installed on a separate partition from Windows files, D:\Games\LFS, so I don't think that is the problem, I have already tried reinstalling. Also, I don't really want to change OS just for one game, have not really had any problems with drivers, other games or such. I will switch for Windows 7 at the end of October, but it seems people are getting the same problem with it too.

I am a programmer myself and I don't think this is an impossible problem to solve. They are probably creating a system hardware stamp based on some parameters of which something changes with hibernation. This would have to be identified and a rule written to take this into account.