PDC’09

The PDC is about 6 months away from now, but it’s not to late to start thinking about going there. But if you were at PDC’08, and with all the cost cutting going around, can you justify being there?

For me, I hope I can make it, but I wonder, what does Microsoft have to present that have changed over the past year? They pushed the 07 PDC to 08 cause they weren’t ready in time! So I wonder if they will cancel this year’s PDC giving that this years TechEd recorded the event’s lowest attendance level.

I’ll probably wait till August to decide whether I’m going or not, depending on how much information gets leaked about what’s coming for the event.

sk8er boi

Windows 7 Power Plan Settings

I have upgraded from Windows 7 Beta to RC over the weekend, since I’ve done that, I have noticed that every morning, my computer is hibernating, even though one of the first things I changed in my laptop’s settings was the power plant to look like:



My laptop was always plugged in, so I thought could the power be disconnecting causing this? When I wake up, I could see that the power was on and the laptop was fully charged.

Yesterday, I finally had time to check why this happens!

It turns out that it’s not enough to change these settings! There is another setting that I personally never had to change before, so I would assume it’s a new one!

You’ll have to go and click “Change advanced power settings”



Once the new window opens, expand the Sleep node. You’ll find settings for Sleep After, Allow hybrid sleep, Hibernate after and Allow wake up timers. The setting relevant here is the Hibernate after!



As you can see this was set to hibernate after 360 minutes. I changed that to Never (or 0 minutes) and now my computer is up when I wake up. My laptop sleeps when I want to, not when Micros0ft wants to :)



You would assume that they would allow you to change this setting in the power plan settings control panel. Please do this Microsoft before the RTM.

sk8er boi