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theoretically possible, after all on laptops theres a hibernate mode etc.. the problem is in loading the data again, and such things as file handles and so on would change especially if the system was rebooted and then an attempt was made to load the 'dumped data'... possible but only with a hell of a lot of work, and dabhand, think about it the dump would only be the swap file and the current physical memory.. possibly video memory as well, really depends how it would be dumped.. in theory the idea is sound, in practice there are a lot of things to handle, like the file handles, state of the hardware and so on there was an old program i used to use in the dos days that did it, cant remember the name of it now, but it worked well, however things move on and get more complex.. windows and so on, it could be done i guess if the program was loaded into a basic shell that recorded file handles and so on and handled them transparently, infact i've coded and played with such systems but it aint an easy task at all, and requires a hell of a lot of planning ahead, such as how you handle memory allocation, file handling.. storing file handles, current position and so on, huge task, but if someone did put the effort in it could be done and probably sell lots...