ACPI POWER MANAGEMENT

In computer terminology, sometimes things get so technical and it becomes difficult for a common computer user to understand them. ACPI is one such term. I am sure; you must have come across the term “ACPI” many times. But many of us still doesn’t know what exactly is the meaning of ACPI and what it does.

ACPI stands for “Advanced Configuration and Power Interface” that provides an interface for a power management scheme that can be configured through the computer’s operating system. ACPI is a power standard for computers and designed and developed collectively by industry majors like Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, Toshiba, and Phoenix Technologies. ACPI is now an open standard and can be used by any hardware or software developer.

Using ACPI, the operating system can determine how much power is allocated to individual peripherals. This allows devices to be powered down or turned off when not in use to conserve energy and save power. Before ACPI was introduces, Advanced Power Management (APM) was its predecessor that was BIOS based and not the operating system based. It was configured through BIOS.

Well, I believe, there is no need to explain why power conservation is important and what are the other benefits of being able to manage your computer’s power usage, aside from saving energy?

Most of the today’s operating systems support ACPI. For example: With Windows XP and ACPI, you can conserve power by tweaking some Power Options like the monitor will be turned off automatically after a prescribed time. One can also set up the computer to wake up automatically from sleep mode when it’s needed to perform prescheduled tasks, or even you can configure power options so that scheduled tasks will not be run if the computer is using battery power.

Most modern Operating systems like windows XP, 2000 or vista supports ACPI functions and more and more hardware vendors have started supporting ACPI guidelines for power management. You can configure power options for your computer by selecting “power Option” icon in the control panel. Power Options may vary from one computer to another, depending on the hardware configuration detected by the Power Options function. Only the options that are available with your hardware will be shown.

You can chose from different power schemes like Home/Office, Portable/Laptops, Presentations, Always On, Minimal Power Management or Max Battery etc for preconfigured power options or you may set is manually as per your requirements. ACPI supports one function called “Hibernation”. Under hibernation mode, you can simply shut down your computer without closing any of the opened application. Hibernation mode allows all the applications that were running at the time you shut down to be restored when you turn the computer back on. This is accomplished by saving everything in memory to the hard disk.

ACPI gives much flexibility in user’s hands to manage power usage and save precious energy resources. ACPI support is automatically installed while the operating system is set up for the first time, if your computer supports ACPI function. And if your computer supports ACPI, it is advised to make full use of such functions that not only helps you save electricity and but also precious energy resource

ACTIVE SYNC MOBILE SYNCRONIZATION

So, you have recently bought windows based mobile phone and installed active sync in your computer from the bundled CD. But you don’t know how to use this active Sync application. No problem, in this article we’ll discuss, what exactly is this active sync and how you can use it to synchronize or backup your phone data.

Actually, active sync is a software application designed by Microsoft for use with personal computer to interact with windows based mobile phones to backup and sync the data from mobile phone to computer and vise versa. With the help of active sync application, one can easily synchronize data like contact or address book information, emails, notes and calendar entries from the phone to PC.

Microsoft Active Sync allows you to configure it in automatic mode or manual mode for synchronization. In automatic mode, as soon as you connect your phone to data cable or phone cradle connected to computer, it detects the phone and start synchronizing the data in preset settings done by the user. On the other hand, under manual sync, even if you connect the phone to the cradle or the data cable, it will not start the sync function until the user manually starts it.

Microsoft active sync comes bundled with the mobile phone package else you can also download the latest version of this software from Microsoft’s website. Microsoft active sync works only in windows XP or earlier versions of windows operating systems. If you are using windows vista, then you can manage your synchronization activities with windows mobile device center in windows vista.

Microsoft active sync works with phone software like Microsoft smart phone 2002, Microsoft pocket PC 2002, Microsoft windows mobile 2003, Microsoft windows mobile 5.0 and 6.0 versions.

Blue Screen Of Death – Repair Your Registry

Blue screen of death or BSOD will strike your PC at least once.  In fact every computer will see the blue screen of death at least once.  It occurs when Windows runs into a hardware, software, or driver error, which stops Windows in its tracks.

Sometimes if you are lucky, the problem will correct itself when you reboot your computer and it may never happen again.  But generally the blue screen of death is a warning that you need to deal with an underlying problem and quite often that problem is in the registry and if you run a registry repair program your BSOD will vanish. 

Your registry is like the brain or the nerve center for your operating system.  It’s a huge database and that’s where everything is stored so that your computer knows how to react to each situation, whether it’s user information, software, hardware, or configuration information.

The problem is that over time corruption can occur in the registry.  Incomplete URLs, invalid drivers or file information, entries that were not removed when software was uninstalled, conflicts, and a host of other problems that can occur in the registry.  What this will do is create chaos in the registry and with the operation of your computer.  A chaotic registry will cause a slow, sluggish system, freezing, and the blue screen of death. 

Running a registry repair program will eliminate all of these errors and your computer will no longer run sluggishly, and the blue screen of death will become a thing of the past

With Windows XP we don’t see the BSOD as often because windows itself has been able to resolve some of the issues that used to cause the BSOD.  However, there are still far too many occurrences of it because the registry is not taken care of properly.

If you want a system that remains fast like the day you bought it, doesn’t freeze, and doesn’t crash then you need to run a registry repair on your computer at least once a month.  Once you start you’ll realize you should have been doing it a long time ago.  

Suddenly the blue screen of death is no more.

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