>When I close my laptop it goes into hibernation mode. When I open it, a running VFP application oftentimes (always?) reacts with an 'Invalid Seek Offset' error. Apparently it does not save and restore the file handles.
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>Who can tell more about this problem? Is there any configuration setting in Windows or the BIOS that I can manipulate?

Maybe you could try sleep instead of hibernation: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions

You might be able to change sleep or hibernate power plan settings to make the hard drive never power down, but that kind of defeats the purpose of hibernation, and maybe sleep as well.