Filed under: OS Updates, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware
Get better battery life under XP
by Jason Clarke Jul 14th 2006
If, like me, you run a Windows XP-based laptop and wonder why your battery life doesn't seem to be as good as it ought to be, or as it used to be, it could be that you lost some battery life when updating to Windows XP SP2. It turns out that there's a bug that can cause XP to leave your USB2 ports powered even when they don't need to be, which forces the operating system to not drop into the proper ACPI processor idle sleep state. Now there's no guarantee that installing this hot-fix from Microsoft will increase your battery life, since they don't provide any sort of mechanism to see whether or not your setup is affected by this bug. But if you suspect you're not getting the kind of battery life you should be, it's probably worth giving the hot-fix a try.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
