Vista 7…. Sorry, I mean Windows 7 has been a handful during our first round of adoption for the school district. I am posting today in order to make public journal of our trials and tribulations so that I may quantify the work, and justify the heart ache felt by everyone.
Here we go: Today I found a new “fix” for an error message after waking up the computer. The power issues with 7 have been tough to root out, but I commend the online community for their quick response. Does this mean that everyone who is a “PC” has been trained to accept that an operating system change means a huge upheaval in our daily lives as we depend on our PCs for everything? That would be an issue for another post.
Battery Issues: If you can spare the power, then the fix seems to be to change all the settings for battery usage to be the same as they would be if the computer was plugged in to the 120v power source. And definitely turn off Hibernate in all instances. I have never had good luck using the hibernate option on any PC, so I may have a bias when it come to hibernate; but there was an instant change for the better when this option was disabled.
The newest fix comes from a blog posted to the net @ http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/581518-solved-windows-error-recovery-after.html . This fix says to change the sleep option to allow hybrid sleep in all power profiles. This seems logical, and seems to have fixed the issue thus far, but power issues have a way of rearing up just when you think they have been eliminated. That is it for today. Good luck and we are all in this together.
