OT: Success!

[Kelly Green]

I finally stumbled -- literally -- onto the link that led me to the part of this abominable Microsoft 8 that enabled me to kill the "Sleep" function!

Think about it. It was set for 20 minutes. So if I went to the store or left the room because our grandkids stopped by or we had dinner -- and was away for 20 minutes -- the computer shuts off. To restart it I have to push the button -- and every time it did it I had to push the button. Sooner or later the button is gonna break and I gotta spend money to have it fixed!

Now? The tower NEVER shuts off until I decide to give it a rest! YESSSSS!

(yo Gates -- your new version SUCKS the big one!!)

[slag]

Sleep should not require a restart ... it should simply require you to hit any key on your keyboard.

[Bardy]

With the amount of meat on those fingers, it's inevitable that all buttons will break if he has to hit a key everytime he needs to wake up his PC.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Ever have Success rice?

I like regular rice.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Ever have meat sweats?

I did. I ate this giant porterhouse and my body couldn't process it.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Ever smoke a beedi?

You should try it.

[Loki]

Your computer eats a lot of electricity.

If you wander off to the store, you should have been shutting it off yourself.

Sure, kill the technology that was trying to save you some money.

[Kelly Green]

The Tower Shut Down

Sleep, slumber, power down -- call it what you want -- it was just a pain in the ass and an extremely stupid "improvement"!

[RSE]

Aren't you afraid the "e" "button" on your keyboard is going to break? You pushed the "e" "button" at least 47 times in the course of composing that post in which you bitched about pushing the Windows "button" once because it would eventually break.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

He can get a new keyboard for 20 bucks

I think the button he's talking about is the power button on the "tower." If he f's that over, he'll have to buy a new tower of power for around 400 bucks!

[slag]

What is the exact model of the computer?

[RSE]

I guess but on what kind of a computer do you have to push the stack on off button when the computer is in sleep mode? An Osborne?

[Loki]

A Difference Engine

like this one:

[IronEagle]

I guess but on what kind of a computer do you have to push the stack on off button when the computer is in sleep mode? An Osborne?

The thing was probably configured to go into hibernate mode like a laptop. I'm not a fan of hibernate mode on a desktop for a number of reasons. But sleep mode or even hybrid sleep mode is completely reasonable.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Yeah, these computers are doing that now

It's all of this "green" sh*t about saving energy. You actually have to push the power button to get it to come out of a total power-down sleep.