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BotageL
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 Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:34 am |
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| ecchi wrote: |
| So far the only thing that's actually pissed me off is that 'Sleep' takes longer than 'Standby' used to because it stores its current state to disk before powering down. This means that I can't just close my laptop at the end of class and throw it into my backpack. The wait's usually only 30 seconds or so, but I don't like it. |
This is rather interesting/confusing. They're replaced Standby/Sleep entirely with what used to be called Hibernate? I just can't see a reason why they would do this.
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BotageL
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:14 am |
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| ecchi wrote: |
| Not exactly. Hibernate is still there. Standby is replaced with Sleep, which has the quick recovery time of Standby but the data reliability of Hibernation -- so if your laptop runs out of battery while sleeping, you can wake it up as if out of hibernation. Or so I hear. I can understand the reasoning, but I prefer the old way. |
In XP, I just set my laptop to sleep when I closed the lid, and auto-hibernate after 15 minutes or so. It seems to me like this is the ideal way to do it - you have the temporary, still-in-memory-but-low-power pause for short interruptions, which automatically switches to the long-term interruption mode after a short period of time. I don't see why MS would really want to mess with this function.
| gooktime wrote: |
| Still using the Windows 3.1 font installation dialogue and icons. |
Wait, you use a DIALOG BOX to do this? Hell, I always just opened the Font control panel in XP and chucked the .ttf file into it. I didn't realize there even was another way to do it.
By the way, Vista kids, does the system still default to automatically downloading available updates for everything it can and automatically installing a gross of them when you press "shut down" because you didn't notice that the button had been subtly replaced with a "shut down after spending fifteen minutes installing updates" button? That really pissed me off when XP pulled that stunt on my laptop last week; I think it's a terrible default setting.
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