January 05, 2011
The last two mornings when I woke up, I found Saten turned on. I've got its power setting so that when it's plugged in it stays on permenantly, so the real question was, "Why was it on?"
First time I thought maybe I'd forgotten to turn Saten off before going to bed. Second time I realized it was Connector doing it. That's the local program on client machines which, among other things, takes care of doing backups with Windows Home Server.
Eventually I remembered that you have to tell Connector not to wake the machine up at 4:00 AM for backups, if indeed that is what you want. And it is, in this case, for me.
Right-click the Connector icon in the tray and unselect "Wake This Computer For Backup".
On another note: Saten doesn't have any Windows games installed on it. Since it's a machine with limited storage, it's obvious why they stripped them out. Or, for all I know, they don't include that in Win7 Pro. My other Win7 machine is running Win7 Home Premium.
A lot of games aren't going to be playable on the Slate because there's no keyboard and no center mouse button, but it turns out that the Mahjongg game would be fine. So I tried copying it over.
It didn't work. Alycone is running Win7-64 and Mahjongg is a 64-bit program. Saten may be running "Pro" but it's also running Win7-32. It took one look at the program and said, "Sorry, wrong version, I can't handle this." I wonder if there's somewhere at MS where I can download the 32-bit version of Mahjongg?
UPDATE: I remembered that I had a backup of Procyon's disk on Deneb. Procyon is the older Asus notebook which died last year, which got replaced by Alcyone. Procyon was running Win7-32 Home Premium. I copied its Mahjong over, but it didn't work. Lots of CPU activity when invoked, but eventually nothing. Like as not there's something else needed which I didn't copy, but there's no easy way to know what. Bummer.
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Posted by: Intrope at January 05, 2011 05:19 PM (GVP9d)
Interesting. I didn't know about that. I wondered where it would get it.
It downloaded it from somewhere, presumably Microsoft.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 05, 2011 06:25 PM (+rSRq)
"It downloaded it from somewhere, presumably Microsoft."
Nope--in Win7, so that you don't have to track down your installation DVD, everything is installed when you first install Windows, but some things are disabled. That's why the control panel is called "Turn features on and off."
Posted by: RickC at January 06, 2011 07:21 PM (y+AAs)
In as much as the "hard disk" on Saten is a 64G SSD, I begrudge the space used for things which are "turned off".
Anyway, I don't think you're right. When I turned on Mahjongg it took a long time to do so (upwards of a minute), and it was heavily onto the internet while that happened.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 06, 2011 07:30 PM (+rSRq)
Instead of speculating, you could read the help:
Turn Windows features on or off
Some programs and features included with Windows, such as Internet Information Services, must be turned on before you can use them. Certain other features are turned on by default, but you can turn them off if you don’t use them.
To turn a feature off in earlier versions of Windows, you had to uninstall it completely from your computer. In this version of Windows, the features remain stored on your hard disk so you can turn them back on if you want to. Turning off a feature does not uninstall the feature, and it does not reduce the amount of hard disk space used by Windows features.
Posted by: RickC at January 07, 2011 10:09 AM (y+AAs)
Yes, but...
That's generic instructions. The Slate is a rather different beast than a normal PC, and it has been known for HP, or its licensees, to create special configurations of Windows for unusual pieces of hardware.
And I definitely saw a lot of internet activity from the Slate (via the indicator lights on the wifi hub) while it was enabling the program. It shouldn't have taken that long if all it was doing was to unpack an archive and install it, and that shouldn't have required any internet activity.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 07, 2011 11:07 AM (+rSRq)
I can believe that what you describe is how it usually works. My point is that they may have changed it for the Slate.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 07, 2011 11:08 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 07, 2011 11:15 AM (+rSRq)
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