Win7 Minor Issues (b7260)


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First these aren't anything major, I just noticed a couple of things and wanted to confirm if others are experiencing them... Flamers need not apply!

Ok, so I go and run "powercfg -h off" to turn off the hibernation temporarily for more disk space. I have since turned it back on, and now it seems to hibernate at 30% battery life??? (with no "please plug in your ac adapter" warning either) I've done a few upgrades so I wonder if thats the cause.

Also, is it by design on shutdown for it to prompt to "FORCE" closing of applications. I'm not talking about apps that need attention, I can understand that. This happens almost every shutdown (dimmed black screen) but if i close a few things manually it seems to have less "difficulty" in sending the close command. I dont think I've ever adjusted the wait time so I'm just curious.

Thanks for any input you may have... I dont recall running into anything this bad, maybe it's all the upgrading (think i've done 4 or so, got lazy with clean installs sorry!) Running build 7260 in enhanced mode (win /3 har har!)

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Steam always took forever to shut down. But I always blamed that more on steam than any windows setting. I haven't had any other programs bring up that black screen on shutdown.

The 30% power on shutdown issue looks like it could be fixed in power management advanced settings.

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Steam always took forever to shut down. But I always blamed that more on steam than any windows setting. I haven't had any other programs bring up that black screen on shutdown.

The 30% power on shutdown issue looks like it could be fixed in power management advanced settings.

Thanks for your reply! Not running steam, but it seems to happen on alot of small apps (i.e. Firefox) even explorer windows. Ok I take it it's not by design then... =)

About hibernation... First place I checked was the advanced power settings and nothing there. I even restored them to default. I will take a look again though.

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Your critical battery level is set to what percent?

Actually, expand the battery section of advanced power management and tell me all the settings you currently have set.

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Your critical battery level is set to what percent?

Actually, expand the battery section of advanced power management and tell me all the settings you currently have set.

Profile: Balanced, they should be the defaults as I have restored them, but here they are! It just shut down on me at 30% without warning, so clearly it's not working with these settings.

Critical batt action:

On batt: Hibernate

Plug: Do Nothing

Low batt level:

On batt: 12%

Plug: 10%

Critical batt level

On batt: 5%

Plug: 5%

Low batt notification

On batt: On

Plug: On

Low batt action

On batt: Do Nothing

Plug: Do Nothing

Reserve batt level

On batt: 7%

Plug: 7%

Strange huh?? As with the recurring shutdown screen, i'm stumped!

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yeah, most of the issues I encountered with windows 7 always happened when I tried to upgrade builds. I never had any issues with power management thouth. You also have a newer build than I do. How old is the laptop?

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I suppose (both of these) are from upgrading... If there's no other settings i might as well do a clean install which seems to be a bit radical for something like this, but oh well.

Too bad that these can't be fixed manually... I'll hold off for awhile in case there's something i'm overlooking.

Also read somewhere the upgrades use some kind of in-place install, not sure what that meant, but started getting lazy with all clean installs and gave it a shot.

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yeah, most of the issues I encountered with windows 7 always happened when I tried to upgrade builds. I never had any issues with power management thouth. You also have a newer build than I do. How old is the laptop?

Whats odd about the hibernation is that it really started happening after I issued the powercfg -h off. I was actually trying to condition the battery (as it let it go completely dead) since it's been always shutting down at 8% for years. It's li-ion which has no memory as opposed to nimh, but I still think it's a good practice? Or I'm just wasting my time, lol!

So the hibernation isn't from the build upgrading, but the shutdown issue definitely is! Was hoping one of these was a registry/policy setting possibly...? Oh, the laptop is pretty new, and hibernation works as expected on the other vista partition.

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