In the newer beta's/rc's or on laptop's - a question

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Rob Wilkens

I only have beta 2 and wasn't brave enough to install it on my laptop (it
claimed, from memory, that to install it on my laptop I would have to LOSE
all of my program files/settings because it could not upgrade)

But I have a question:

Is this "cheap trick" of microsoft making the default "Power Off" option to
"Sleep" also the default in newer versions and on laptops? I ask because I
know "sleep" mode (versus hibernate mode) uses power, and laptops have
limited battery life. Sleeping on a laptop is stupid because if the battery
goes your programs die in the middle of what they were doing without caches
flushed to disk, etc. (I once disconnected a USB drive in Windows XP while
the computer was asleep and when the computer came back up it claimed there
was more to write to the disk and that that data was now lost --- what I had
written to the disk was a complete Ghost (PQDI) backup - about an hour or
two worth of work, I wasn't happy).

-Rob
 
Yeah, pretty much. Sleep mode has the system go into standby for three hours,
then shuts the hardware down after that (with a trickle of power being fed to
the memory, by the motherboard's battery). I 'd save before going to sleep.
And actually, I'd just use hibernate or have the HDD take a blow (over time)
and just shut down all together, save your batteries for the PSU and on the
motherboard.
 
On my desktop computer I can turn the power off after it has gone into sleep
mode, and it will resume as if it had gone into hibernate mode.
I don't know if it works the same way for a laptop though.
Once I can get the RC1 I will put more ram into my laptop and give it a try.
 
On my desktop, overnight last night for example, I pressed the "power"
(sleep) button on the Windows Vista start menu, and I woke up with a
screensaver on my screen (in other words, it turns itself back on in the
middle of the night). Is this a common experience?

-Rob

<DIV>&quot;Gary Mount&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote in message
 
I too am having the same problem -- the computer turns itself on. Quite
annoying really because it makes a lot of noise and its in my bedroom.

Is this by design and is there an option somewhere where you can specify how
long before it wakes up
 
It is a feature if you have a BIOS "wake on...." feature enabled. There
isn't timing involved, it's initiated by activity being detected by
hardware, most common is the "wake on lan" and "wake on ring" features. The
former may react to network activity, the latter to the phone ringing.
Either can cause the system to power up.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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