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Vista weirdness
09-08-2007 8:49 PM
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Re: Vista weirdness
09-08-2007 10:12 PM
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Re: Vista weirdness
09-08-2007 11:47 PM
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Reboot and see if it come sup next time
Re: Vista weirdness
11-08-2007 1:57 PM
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Certainly when a passworded desktop Vista PC resumes from hibernation then a password is not asked for, you literally go back to your desktop as you left it.
When a desktop wakes up from sleep you are not asked for a password by default (on my machine anyway!) but this is a setting that can be turned on or off if desired in the advanced power settings. Lappy power settings probably have the password turned on as default.
Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 9:02 AM
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Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 1:07 PM
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Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 2:19 PM
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Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 3:02 PM
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If you look inside the PC case on most modern motherboards there is usualy an LED lit up on the board to show you it is still taking power from the PSU.
If you want your PC truly 'Off' you need to either use the power switch (if there is one) on the back of the PSU or unplug it.
Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 10:00 PM
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Quote from: paulby If you use the standard "on/off" looking button on the Vista Start Menu it puts the PC into sleep mode rather than turning it off - this may explain the action on restart. You can change the behaviour of the button - I changed it so that it actually shuts down the PC as detailed here.
Hi Paulby
That changes the behaviour of the physical power button, not the on / off button on the start menu. Anyone know how to select what the software button does?
EDIT: Google is your friend found it here:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/vistasmpwrbtn.htm
Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 10:22 PM
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The link you provide gives a better explanation - I used the site I linked to and managed to change the power button on the start menu. The link in Vista Tweaks leaves out a few steps!
Anyway, the default behaviour of the button isn't intuitive and changing it made things a bit more sensible (for me at least :))
Re: Vista weirdness
13-08-2007 11:09 PM
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Does anyone know of any adwantage that 'sleep' has other than a few seconds head start over hibernate?
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