Posts Tagged ‘cases’
July 22nd, 2010 | 
One pet-peeve I’ve found with Vista & Windows 7 is that hibernation feature tends to disappear… usually due to a disk cleanup. Essentially, when the hibernation save file is deleted, Vista removes the hibernation ability. Luckily, turning it back on is very easy. Click the “Start” button, and type cmd… then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open in administrator mode. You can also right-click the item “Command Prompt” in the menu and choose Run as Administrator.
From the command prompt, type in the following command:
powercfg /hibernate on
You may have to restart your computer before it will take effect, however I’ve … [Read More...]
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Tags: aluminum chassis, Amazon, black, blue, board, cache, call, card, case, cases, computer, computer case, cover, CPU, display, drive, drive cage, hard, hard drive, inch, light, MaximumPC, motherboard, optical, panel, plus, power, premium, PSU, retail, review, Reviews, silver, thin, tool, tower, video, with Corsair’s first chassis wins our hearts
Go big or go home. That’s a lesson Corsair apparently took to heart for its first chassis, a 24x24x9-inch full-size enclosure that rivals Cooler Master’s ATCS 840 in size. Corsair’s Obsidian 800D is all black, from its matte steel frame and side panels to its brushed-aluminum front bezel, from motherboard tray to front-panel cables, from screws to standoffs. And the goodness is more than skin deep—the 800D has everything you’d expect from a premium case: quick-swap SATA bays, thermally isolated compartments, plenty of cable-routing cutouts, and more. In fact, it’s one of the best … [Read More...]
This tip is geared towards servers, but is applicable to desktops as well in certain cases.
Whenever you shutdown Windows, a “stop” command is sent to programs and background services which are currently running. Typically programs will respond to this quickly and close, however services are a different animal which can take a while to quit (i.e. Exchange Server).
After waiting for a specified amount of time, Windows will simply force the program to quit in order to continue with the shutdown. To control how long Windows waits before forcing the service to quit, edit this registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillService
Note, … [Read More...]
