nvm

[FelixDeCat]

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[Red Squirrel]

Windows has lot of bugs/annoyances from very long ago.

Another one is the fact that if you are copying a ton of files using the GUI and a single file fails, it stops the entire transfer. Or when it prompts for a question, it again, stops the entire transfer. I really figured it would have been fixed by Vista but nope.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Windows has lot of bugs/annoyances from very long ago.

Another one is the fact that if you are copying a ton of files using the GUI and a single file fails, it stops the entire transfer. Or when it prompts for a question, it again, stops the entire transfer. I really figured it would have been fixed by Vista but nope.

Ironically, I moved about 2800 files off an SD card to my desktop (mostly mp3s, pics, etc) from my phone. It came out to almost the card's capacity of 8gb. It has a piss poor transfer rate of 6mb/s being class 4. In the meantime I deleted a few files midstream from the card since it was taking soo long, and all it it was pause and ask to skip the now missing files I deleted. After clicking "yes", it just continued with the large transfer of files.

So maybe the finally fixed it?

Also, have you noticed the power plan settings I mentioned? Or do you run your computer 24x7? I like to watch a show in the bedroom or work on the laptop, so Im not always around to shut down the desktop. Therefore I want it to sleep /hibernate or power down the drives after a period of time.

The defaults are to never sleep while plugged in, never turn off drives, etc. With the hundreds of millions of computers world wide, MS should be held responsible for all the wasted energy thanks to their piss poor programming.

Maybe a class action to recover the higher utility bill payments would make them take notice to fix this damn problem.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I usually turn off the power stuff so never noticed that. I do know that Standby has been broken from the start. Or is that fixed now? I remember trying it in 98, and it would just lock up the PC. Same with XP. But in XP it had a chance of potentially working but it was a gamble.

Now that I'm on Linux, I've been shutting down my machine at night, because it's so fast to go back in anyway. Hit power button and less than 30 seconds later I can start using the computer.

 

[mikeymikec]

@ OP

I can't say I've ever had this problem. In what way do you modify your power settings?

The only bug I've noticed was in XP's handling of power-saving - I had it set to hibernate the computer after an hour or two, sometimes it would remember to, sometimes not. The setting would remain though. That bug was fixed in Vista/7. Yes, I realise that if something is running in DirectX (e.g. DVD playback) that the computer won't go into standby/hibernate or switch off the monitor.

I usually turn off the power stuff so never noticed that. I do know that Standby has been broken from the start. Or is that fixed now? I remember trying it in 98, and it would just lock up the PC. Same with XP. But in XP it had a chance of potentially working but it was a gamble.

Bear in mind that support for the standby function was once a very low priority for hardware manufacturers. It only became a higher priority when laptops were starting to become 'mainstream'. I'd expect just about any surviving PC today to handle hibernation (S4), and probably PCs from about 2005 to handle S3 properly...

Personally I remember using S1 suspend mode in 1996 on a Win95 PC, no problems. Admittedly S1 is a waste of time, but still. The problem you saw was probably down to hardware/drivers, not the OS.

With the except of one Acer laptop from 2007 which seems to like to switch off randomly if it's on the default sleep setting. Disable sleep entirely and it runs normally But hey, it's Acer.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Pisses me off so much, it does this every damn day or every other day.

 

[Matthiasa]

When I had a laptop, using vista, The power settings always worked and always stuck.

I suspect you are doing something wrong.

 

[mikeymikec]

Well, I can think of a possibility on a laptop, if it's on the manufacturer's default install - loads of laptop manufacturers will have their own "special" power profiles and will aggressively reset them if any changes are made. Yes, it's stupid, that's why I always do a wipe-clean install on a laptop.

On my desktop, I've got sleep set to 45 minutes on the 'balanced' plan. I can't remember it ever being reset back to the default 30.

Matthiasa's helpful "doing something wrong" comment - the main possibility IMO is a third party app messing with the settings. It seems unlikely that you would get corrupted registry settings on two machines. I might consider telling Windows to reset the power profiles to their defaults, then alter the 'balanced' plan as you see fit.

One other possibility, though it wouldn't account for auto setting changes - in Device Manager, check that the LAN/WLAN adapter aren't set to "allow this device to wake the computer". If your computer likes to resume for no apparent reason, that could be it.

 

[KLin]

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[Soundmanred]

Never had any problems, desktop or laptop.
I set them the way I want them, they don't change.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Do you have HDTune installed?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Do you have HDTune installed?

yap, why

 

[VirtualLarry]

yap, why

Because, I've noticed that it screws with the power-management settings, as you mentioned.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Because, I've noticed that it screws with the power-management settings, as you mentioned.

You solved my problem VirtualLarry!