My laptop is configured to automatically download and install Windows updates. I may re-think that in light of recent developments. Last week, a fresh load of...updates...removed the hibernate function. When selected, it stores all your work and shuts the computer down completely. As in, no power is used. The sleep mode still requires some battery power, but since this laptop has been dropped several times, the battery no longer charges. Hence, in sleep mode I lose everything. grrrrr.
But here's a fix:
To make hibernation available, follow these steps:
1. Click Start , and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt , and then click Run as Administrator .
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue .
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on , and then press ENTER.
5. Type exit , and then press ENTER to close the Command Prompt window.
It works! I'd like to thank Microsoft for improving my computer by making it less functional and less responsive to MY needs. And the next time I bump into Bill Gates, I'll punch him in the nose.
I've got to ask, what version of windows are you using because I still have it on this computer.
Also, I have heard that Gates got out of MS, sold his share of it.
Thank you I lost this function some time back and wondered what happened to it, seems like it did happen after I did some of my updates. I didn't think anything of it until I saw your post. I will try to get the hibernate function back on.
I'm running Vista and updates have had a tendency to kill my sound driver from time to time. I get it back after a restart or two. I think I'm going to stop the auto updates myself.
Quote from: custosnox on June 13, 2010, 12:11:05 PM
I've got to ask, what version of windows are you using because I still have it on this computer.
Also, I have heard that Gates got out of MS, sold his share of it.
This one is a Toshiba running Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 2 installed. My kids have another one with Vista and a third one with XP. I'll have to check those too, not that it matters to my kids.
Quote from: custosnox on June 13, 2010, 12:11:05 PM
I've got to ask, what version of windows are you using because I still have it on this computer.
Also, I have heard that Gates got out of MS, sold his share of it.
Not true. He is still the single largest stockholder in the company at 8 percent. He may have sold off some of his shares, but he is still majority owner. He did, however, get out of the day-to-day running of the company. He also remains as a non-executive chairman
Quote from: Ed W on June 13, 2010, 02:28:38 PM
This one is a Toshiba running Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 2 installed. My kids have another one with Vista and a third one with XP. I'll have to check those too, not that it matters to my kids.
I'm running windows 7, which would explain a differance there. I might get on my big computer that has vista 64 and run updates on it later to see if it does it there. Makes you wonder why they do stuff like that
Quote from: Hoss on June 13, 2010, 02:37:03 PM
Not true. He is still the single largest stockholder in the company at 8 percent. He may have sold off some of his shares, but he is still majority owner. He did, however, get out of the day-to-day running of the company. He also remains as a non-executive chairman
It must have been the fact that he got out of the day-to-day that filtered down to me. That's why I always qualify hearsay with "I heard" or something along those lines lol. In any case, still takes the blame off of him on this one hehe
If they gradually make your computer less and less useful or user friendly, you will be more likely to jump on the bandwagon when they introduce something new to fix all those problems.
Windows sucks, which is awesome. Otherwise thousands of IT people like myself would be unemployed.
Quote from: sgrizzle on June 13, 2010, 04:12:10 PM
Windows sucks, which is awesome. Otherwise thousands of IT people like myself would be unemployed.
They have made it quite a bit better with Windows 7. I think Vista was to Windows 7 what Window ME was to Windows XP. Ok, maybe on a lesser scale. But MS has that 'Star Trek Movie' quality about their software releases.
About every other one sucks.
;D
I seem to recall holding down shift while clicking the 'shut down' option on the start menu will switch 'sleep' to 'hibernate.' It's been a long time since I've used Windows on my laptop, though.
As far as Microsoft being a fount of billable hours for me? Absolutely. A couple weeks back, one of my clients had the joy of spending a little over $20,000 (before our hours) to switch to windows on their servers and buy a new version of this software package they use that now only works with SQL server, rather than having the option for a shared-file database (which is often a bad idea, I grant) like it used to. This client has a little over 20 employees.
Thank you, Microsoft, for breaking Clarion databases in XPSP3. That was worth a lot more than the hardware failure another client had a few weeks back.
Quote from: Hoss on June 13, 2010, 04:16:36 PM
About every other one sucks.
Now, if we just could predict which ones would suck
before buying, we would be in good shape.
Quote from: Red Arrow on June 13, 2010, 05:27:28 PM
Now, if we just could predict which ones would suck before buying, we would be in good shape.
Oh, I can do that. If you have to pay for it, your paying too much, because they all suck, at least for the price they want to charge.
Quote from: sgrizzle on June 13, 2010, 04:12:10 PM
Windows sucks, which is awesome. Otherwise thousands of IT people like myself would be unemployed.
Which works up to a point where someone else markets a better product.
Think American automobile manufacturers and all the mechanics they caused employment for.
Quote from: custosnox on June 13, 2010, 05:31:54 PM
Oh, I can do that. If you have to pay for it, your paying too much, because they all suck, at least for the price they want to charge.
I can't really disagree there.
Quote from: Red Arrow on June 13, 2010, 05:27:28 PM
Now, if we just could predict which ones would suck before buying, we would be in good shape.
Why I never install or purchase a new OS until all the looky-loos have a say on it, and even then I typically wait until the first service pack is out.
Quote from: Hoss on June 13, 2010, 06:07:40 PM
Why I never install or purchase a new OS until all the looky-loos have a say on it, and even then I typically wait until the first service pack is out.
Being first on the block to get something always carries some risk.
Quote from: Hoss on June 13, 2010, 04:16:36 PM
They have made it quite a bit better with Windows 7. I think Vista was to Windows 7 what Window ME was to Windows XP. Ok, maybe on a lesser scale. But MS has that 'Star Trek Movie' quality about their software releases.
About every other one sucks.
;D
When Windows 7 works, it works great. When it doesn't work, I would rather have ME. Fixing it is more complicated than any previous version of windows ever created.
Quote from: sgrizzle on June 13, 2010, 07:48:46 PM
When Windows 7 works, it works great. When it doesn't work, I would rather have ME. Fixing it is more complicated than any previous version of windows ever created.
We have several brand new HP boxes on 7 and it's a nightmare. Worse than Vista in my opinion. Some of my systems run databases that are necessary to other systems and, they like to shut down frequently with no explanation. I have disabled automatic updates and eliminated permissions for the systems to do so, but they still do. Log files are no help and I am currently waiting on a couple more XP licenses so I can downgrade.
On the non-critical machines that run 7, I have updates turned on and it seems that Microsoft has a new "critical" update three or four times a week. With each update, I notice the system performance decreasing. I'm surprised if my Apple boxes update every 6 months. I've got one on Tiger that is still as fast today as it was 5 years ago when I bought it.
Why must Microsoft continue to release software that is not ready for prime time?
Quote from: Gaspar on June 14, 2010, 08:20:24 AM
We have several brand new HP boxes on 7 and it's a nightmare. Worse than Vista in my opinion. Some of my systems run databases that are necessary to other systems and, they like to shut down frequently with no explanation. I have disabled automatic updates and eliminated permissions for the systems to do so, but they still do. Log files are no help and I am currently waiting on a couple more XP licenses so I can downgrade.
On the non-critical machines that run 7, I have updates turned on and it seems that Microsoft has a new "critical" update three or four times a week. With each update, I notice the system performance decreasing. I'm surprised if my Apple boxes update every 6 months. I've got one on Tiger that is still as fast today as it was 5 years ago when I bought it.
Why must Microsoft continue to release software that is not ready for prime time?
I've heard the problem is that Microsoft continues to build on the same core. There are elements in Windows 7 that came from Dos 6. While troubleshooting Windows 7, I bought up menus and systems written for Windows XP.
Apple (Jobs) made a huge change by dumping the old Mac OS and changing out to unix-based OSX. One major difference is the way security is thought of. A user in OSX does not have "god power" to the system but can seamlessly invoke it when they need to. Almost every Windows user has this power meaning the apps they run also have that power and it makes it extremely easy for viruses, hackers, and pebkac issues. The easiest way to protect against the majority of Windows problems is to never have admin rights.
These sort of complaints is when Apple-heads become really obnoxious and insufferable. And it sucks to know that they're right.
Quote from: rwarn17588 on June 14, 2010, 08:44:35 AM
These sort of complaints is when Apple-heads become really obnoxious and insufferable. And it sucks to know that they're right.
I started out in Unix and Dos, then went to Novell, then on to Windows (where the $$ is) but I'm typing this on a macbook.
My next computer will be a Mac
If I get the package to run Windows applications on my i-Mac will I get all the problems of Windows on the i-Mac?
My daughter claims her Mac Book runs Windows apps better than Windows does. She's not one to exaggerate, but she does like to give me a hard time about still being on an MS-based machine.
I wish all my PCs worked like my Mac. My Mac is on a 5yo operating system and I still consider it 10 years ahead of windows. My iPhone is at least 5 years ahead of my previous phone (Blackberry).
I think Jobs has a alien spacecraft he's steeling technology from!
Quote from: Red Arrow on June 14, 2010, 10:03:14 AM
If I get the package to run Windows applications on my i-Mac will I get all the problems of Windows on the i-Mac?
To do that you basically run windows inside of the mac operating system. I would say it actually runs a bit better. However, since you're not using windows for web browsing, etc, downloading update is not as important.
Quote from: Gaspar on June 14, 2010, 08:20:24 AM
We have several brand new HP boxes on 7 and it's a nightmare.
We just upgraded about a dozen workstations to Xeons with 8 processor cores and obscene amounts of memory, all of them running XP sp3...
I was really hoping they had "gotten it right" with Win7.
But at least you can still legally buy XP.
Quote from: patric on June 14, 2010, 11:04:39 AM
We just upgraded about a dozen workstations to Xeons with 8 processor cores and obscene amounts of memory, all of them running XP sp3...
I was really hoping they had "gotten it right" with Win7.
But at least you can still legally buy XP.
I'm sure Microsoft will deliver an update that puts an end to the life of XP.
I have a couple of machines on Ubuntu Linux, and am amazed by how fast and elegant that operating system is. I use a Linux program called Wine that lets me install and run many window's applications. It's a very fast system and it's free.
Quote from: Gaspar on June 14, 2010, 12:48:13 PM
I'm sure Microsoft will deliver an update that puts an end to the life of XP.
I have a couple of machines on Ubuntu Linux, and am amazed by how fast and elegant that operating system is. I use a Linux program called Wine that lets me install and run many window's applications. It's a very fast system and it's free.
Ubuntu Linux, is a program?
Holy crap, I thought he was the former transportation minister of Nigeria. I just gave him my bank info and social security number to help him move $12.5mm into the U.S. Uh oh...
Quote from: Conan71 on June 14, 2010, 12:53:14 PM
Ubuntu Linux, is a program?
Holy crap, I thought he was the former transportation minister of Nigeria. I just gave him my bank info and social security number to help him move $12.5mm into the U.S. Uh oh...
. . .and he is pleased to thanking you for your equatable transaction responsibility. Your delivery of 12.5mm will acquire immediately once funding of your account is magnificent.
In your lords service,
Ubuntu Linux
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Quote from: Hoss on June 13, 2010, 04:16:36 PM
They have made it quite a bit better with Windows 7. I think Vista was to Windows 7 what Window ME was to Windows XP. Ok, maybe on a lesser scale. But MS has that 'Star Trek Movie' quality about their software releases.
Boy, you're not kidding. I have a new laptop with Win 7 and so far it's been terrific. I've used Vista a few times and it always tends to freeze up. Not so with 7. And you're dead on with the Vista=ME connection.
Quote from: Gaspar on June 14, 2010, 08:20:24 AM
We have several brand new HP boxes on 7 and it's a nightmare. Worse than Vista in my opinion.
What version of 7? I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and it's been great so far.