On Windows XP, the following command in a script will prevent any power saving options from being enabled on the PC (monitor sleep, HD sleep, etc.). This is useful for kiosk applications. powercfg.exe /setactive presentation What is the equivalent on Vista? ...
I'd like to use a linux pc purely to collect rss feeds, but would like to minimise it's power usage as much as possible. Presumably I would create some kind of cron job to bring it in and out of sleep mode or are there better ways of tackling this? ...
I was wondering if anyone could point me to (or paste in) some code to deal with turning off Core Location updates to save power. As far as I understand it, you should stop Core Location updates as soon as you get a reading of desired accuracy. If you don't get a good accuracy reading after a certain time, you should also stop updates (...
Hi, I have written some software which uses Wifi as a possible internet-connection medium.. I did notice though, that after some time (I am guessing around the 15-20 minutes) after the device has gone into power save mode (anyways when the screen has gone black) the Wifi connection will simply be dropped, even though it is still being us...
Hi I plan to develop a nice little application that will run on a arm based embedded linux platform, however since that platform will be battery powered I'm searching for relevant information on how to handle powersave. It is kind of important to get decent battery time. I think the linux kernel implemented some support for this, ...
How can to set Power setting turn off: never , by c#? manualy: Control Panel-> Power Options -> Edit Plan Setting -> trun off the display = never Put the computer to sleep = never anther Question: to set: Don't require a password manualy: Control Panel-> Power Options -> System Setting * Don't require a password ...
From the moment we call Win API's WaveInOpen method the system won't sleep nor hibernate until this stream is closed. Is there any workaround for this? ...