March 23rd, 2007 ·
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Microsoft recommends letting your computer sleep or hibernate to save power. Don’t connect anything to your computer, and don’t run any software, and it works nearly flawlessly. See the KB-Links for details on the many issues.
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The NIST ‘ban’ explained. Of course the ‘ban’ is really a ‘wait for us to test it first’ policy.
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If Media Center and it’s extenders could only deal with Divx and Xvid I’d be all over this. As is, I’ll be sticking with the DVR and custom HTPC.
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Here’s that newly released cable card in a Vista based HTPC. Slick looking, but expensive!
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Use Vista or we’re all going to die!
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If you make your own music, this may be good news for you.
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If you need to REALLY delete a file, then you need software like this, which is now Vista compatible.
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If you do Second Life, and you’ve got an ATI video card, you probably know there’s a problem. Sleep well knowing the fix will be in the next ATI Catalyst driver update.
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Scott Kingery
Mar 23, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I love the new sleep features of Vista. My experience is that it actually goes to sleep and comes back unlike XP.
The only 2 issues I’ve had is that sometimes (and I haven’t been able to figure out exactly when) my readyboost drive will not come back online after sleep. It appears like there is no file on the drive yet Windows thinks it doesn’t have enough space to run readyboost. I do a quick format and reenable ReadyBoost.
The other issue is, I have a scheduled batch file that runs in the middle of the night. It is supposed to wake up the computer and run. I think it does do that but the computer sleeps again while it is running. I can see the DOS box when I wake the computer in the morning. The batch file then finishes with no ill effects other than taking up processor cycles I would have rather used in the middle of the night.
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