Windows 7 gave my PC insomnia

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » June 25th, 2009, 16:00

Windows 7 gave my PC insomnia
I've never really liked Windows Fista - it had too many annoying habits and not enough good ones for me to bother with it. However, I was always envious of its Sleep mode - Hibernate in XP is fine, but Fista's Sleep is much better. I was therefore keen to use Sleep after installing the Windows 7 RC, but there was a problem.

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Publish Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:07:54 +0100
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Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 25th, 2009, 16:31

To save anyone Googling, Run from the command line:

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powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

This will gave you a list of devices that can wake the computer from sleep.

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powercfg -lastwake

This will tell you what made the computer wake up last.

Use this information wisely in Device Manager.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 25th, 2009, 17:05

The advantages over Fista still outweigh the disadvantages.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » June 25th, 2009, 17:13

I was just reading this earlier, which has probably been shared elsewhere here already, but hey ho: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8118749.stm

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 25th, 2009, 17:24

Meh: European commission almost fucks things up for us some more. The only effect all this legislation against Microsoft is having on me is to respect Microsoft a little. Can't ship with IE? We'll ship with IE, FF, Chrome, Safari and Opera and let people choose. Won't let people upgrade? We'll just sell people with Fista licenses W7 at the same price as an upgrade. Well done Microsoft for turning something shit around - with the reduced price of a Win 7 install now they're more likely to sell. Personally I'm content to pay £150 for the multi-user home edition so I can legally install it on any machine I own.