When I power off my PC that is what I want to happen. The default power option on Vista when you press the power off button is to sleep. Fortunately this can be changed via the Control Panel.
From Control Panel navigate to Power Options - Change Plan Settings - Change Advanced Power Settings. In this panel you will find an option "Power buttons and Lid". Change both "Power button action" and "Start menu power button action" from Sleep to Shutdown ... and you're done.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Flash the Cache
In a couple of years time all of our PC's will come with flash based drives. Not only will these drives give us an enormous speed boost for normal operation, they will allow "Instant On" just like PDAs today. A simple press of a button and a fully loaded Vista OS screen will appear, ready to use. Pipe dreams maybe, but as flash memory drops in price full sized disk drive replacement drives will be commonplace in our desktops and laptops.
Microsoft have made one small but important step towards this reality with its Windows Readyboost technology. Readyboost allows Vista to use a flash memory stick to provide additional memory cache. Attach a USB 2.0 memory stick to your PC and Vista will prompt you to "Use device to speed up my computer".
Microsoft have made one small but important step towards this reality with its Windows Readyboost technology. Readyboost allows Vista to use a flash memory stick to provide additional memory cache. Attach a USB 2.0 memory stick to your PC and Vista will prompt you to "Use device to speed up my computer".
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)