Hybrid Sleep feature in Windows Vista provides a safeguard for computer system such as desktop PCs and workstations, which does not have backup power supply such as battery, from losing running programs and open files when encountering power blackout while in sleep state. The trade back is that to let computer goes into sleep takes a while longer, as system will save the state of […]
Sleep mode as a fast way to turn off the computer has been supported by Windows operating system for a while, which also known as Standby. Standby or Sleep is actually Windows implementation name of ACPI mode S3, while hibernate implements ACPI mode S4. Unknowing to many, Windows Vista also has a new feature named Hybrid Sleep, primarily aim and mostly useful for desktop PC […]
Digital convergence is a trend that enables the video clips stored in PC contents to be stream to TV screen. There could be already solutions in the market but most of them are priced so high that none are affordable and worth spending for beginners. Of course, prices are paid for high end features such as wireless streaming that appears in Apple TV or Xbox […]
Junk Registry files that hide inside your system will tend to slow down your PC or crash it sometimes. These junk registry files were left behind when you install/uninstall programs and you forget to clean them whenever they are no more in use. Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest and useful registry cleaning utilities which does a good job of clearing the registry […]
In Windows operating system environment such as Windows XP and Windows Vista system, there is always a file named hiberfil.sys created and existed in the system root drive on boot disk. The hiberfil.sys is large and big in size, always as big as your system physical memory (RAM) size. For example, if the computer have 2 GB of DRAM memory, the hiberfil.sys file size will […]
Ability to hibernate is enabled by default on every Windows Vista installation. If you have disable and turn off hibernation feature, accidentally delete hiberfil.sys using Hibernation File Cleaner of Disk Cleanup tool, or you just simply cannot and unable to find the Hibernate button to put the computer into hibernation state, you can re-enable or try to enable and turn on the hibernation functionality in […]
Hibernation is enabled by default in Windows Vista, and is one of the seven options (i.e. Hibernate) that appears on the Vista shutdown menu. Hibernate your Vista system will enable you to quickly restore to existing system state and intact workspace instead of start afresh, run programs and open your documents one by one again. If you do not use the hibernate feature in Vista, […]
Internet users like to display their picture while they are participating in forum, chatting in MSN, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, etc. Display pics sometimes represent the characteristics of the user to a certain extent. For instance, a humorous user likes to use funny photos or cartoons as his display photo to show his sense of humor. We found an interesting webpage from China that allows you […]
In Windows Vista, the SATA (Serial-ATA) based optical drives such as a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive may disappear and not available right after the system boots u pagain after users enable and switch to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) feature on AHCI chipset for the SATA ports in system BIOS configuration. Previously, the CD or DVD (ROM or RW or Writable) drive is […]
After installing Windows Vista on a SATA (Serial ATA) based hard disk drive (HDD) which is also a boot drive, if users attempt to change the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) mode of the boot drive to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification, the following stop error will appear in the BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) screeen after users restart the computer. STOP […]
You decided that it’s time to reformat and reinstall your computer’s operating system so that it will start fresh and fast. However, when attempting to boot from Windows XP or Vista or Linux flavor (RedHat, Ubuntu and etc) installation setup CD/DVD, the install may stop and halt with an error message saying that setup does not detect hard disk drives installed on the computer. Without […]
When installing Windows XP on SATA hard disk drive, you may encounter problem where you unable to install Windows XP on the SATA drive as the Windows XP setup installation interface does not detect and recognize any of the hard disks mounted on S-ATA (Serial ATA) ports, and thus XP installer cannot find usable physical disks on the computer system and unable to continue to […]
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