What is the difference between Sleep and Hibernate in Windows Vista? Solution: Sleep is commonly known as Standby in Windows systems or S3 in ACPI. In Sleep mode, the power supply to non-essential and non-critical components is withheld, and most system operations are shutdown and stopped. All data in physical memory (RAM) is still kept…
My Vista 64 installation has drive C, a 150 GB hard drive. I also has a 1.5 TB drive D. My C drive has 12.3 GB free. I don’t know what’s using up all the space. There’s almost 83 GB unaccounted for!!! As per this question and this question, I downloaded WinDirStat and SpaceMonger. WinDirStat,…
My girlfriend bought a laptop last week. It’s a core 2 duo with 4 GB We installed vista 64bit, and one of the first things we did was right click on “My computer” to see gthe properties. Immediately we noticed something strange about her RAM, the line said:Installed memory (RAM): 4,00 GB (3,68 GB usable)…
I have a Sandisk Cruzer 16GB USB flash drive, but it started to show up as 16MB. And I can’t use it, it tells me that I need to format the drive or Please insert a disk into drive X. What software do I need to check the flash drive? I can’t format it since…
Can we edit bios properties from desktop? without going to bios like to set first boot device etc. Solution: Windows (your operating system) and your motherboard are entirely different things. The BIOS is integrated directly into the motherboard to act like a springboard (throwing master CPU control to the OS once it’s prepared the system)…
I subjected my hard disk (C drive) to a disk scan and found that there was 12 KB of bad sectors. I now consider that disk to be unreliable, and am looking forward to transferring all my data to another file. The problem is, I want to clone the complete drive (including the apps, OSes, files…
Does a program exist to record all upload / download usage for a personal computer? So I can reset it at some stage, and then use the internet, and then look at how much data has been sent/received? Solution: I use a little Delphi program I found for specifics like this, appropriately named Network Traffic…
When I start up my computer Windows XP sees my DVD drive, but as time goes on, at some point, it no longer detects the drive. If I reboot my machine, then my drive is detected again for some amount of time until it disappears again. What could be the culprit here? How do I…
Free Software for the Partition Manager on Windows XP/vista? Solution: Try GParted Live. You can create a Boot CD and use that to work with partitions.
I would like to monitor all and any Internet traffic from my home PC to see what programs installed on my home machine are accessing the Internet. I thought I could use Fiddler for this, but I noticed Firefox traffic doesn’t show up by default; you need to do some setup. What options do I…
