Patent ID: 8856802

Claim:
A method of operating a data processing system, comprising: defining a plurality of profiles, each profile comprising a list of a plurality of applications and a list of at least one file linked to at least one of the plurality of applications listed in each profile; receiving a defined user input requesting a switch from a first profile to a second profile; and responsive to receiving the defined user input, hibernating each application and file listed in the first profile and recalling from hibernation each application and file listed in the second profile, wherein: at least one particular application is listed in both the first profile and the second profile; the at least one particular application has a first file linked thereto in the first profile but not linked thereto in the second profile; hibernating the each file listed in the first profile causes the first file to be copied from a memory of the data processing system to a storage device of the data processing system; and recalling the each application listed in the second profile causes the particular application to change from using the first file during execution of the particular application to not using the first file during execution of the particular application.