Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Aug 2005 17:26 UTC
For off Windows XP machines offer several options - including hibernate, stand by and shut down. However, many users don't know the difference. What's worse, however, is that applications and drivers can veto a user's decision to hibernate or similar. In Vista however, applications will be warned that a computer is entering sleep and have a second or two to save what ever they need to, but the programs won't get a say in whether the machine slumbers.
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RE: Windows showstoppers ...
by Tom K on Fri 26th Aug 2005 15:20
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On a side note, I'm glad they acknowledged one of the big showstopper (and Windows puker) I had which made me switch to Linux. The fact that till today, you can not shutdown any Windows and expect it to actually shutdown every time.
I feared several time that my monitor was burned after this happening several time with Windows (since 98 to XP), leaving the monitor on the same image for several hours, sometimes days.
The hibernate thing was not working with my motherboard even though the feature was implemented. Once I changed the motherboard (because the old one died during the very hot 2003 summer in France) it worked, and I managed to keep a freshly installed WinXP (you bet it could never work and at best blue screened after I changed my motherboard, forced me to reinstall a fresh Windows, while the dual-boot Mandrake restarted without reinstalling) working at most for 30 days, using it roughly 3 hours a day (to play an online RPG). Then it crashed (or locked up) or became so slow it was unusable. Actually it still crashed after less than a week if you make the math, but that is consistant with my experience of WinXP.
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