Show Run menu in Windows Vista and Windows 7

Back in the days of Windows XP(Professional i do not know about home) Run... menu could be found in start menu. This changed in Windows Vista and was kept that way in Windows 7.

Shutdown command in windows

Some time ago i wanted to leave my computer running for a short time only, not all night. I was looking for a way to do this without installing a new program in windows. All i wanted was to schedule the computer for shutdown after 15 minutes.

Disable Hibernation in windows Vista

If you have read the post about the hibernation problem in Vista you may also be interested in disabling Hibernation to save some space from your disc.


This can be done with two ways.

The first one is to excecute the Disc Cleanup utility and delete the file. In my opinion this has a major disadvantage. The Disc cleanup utility is realy slow and takes a considerable amount of time in order to calculate all the available data.

The second and much faster way is to go to the command line as you did in the previous post and write:

powercfg /hibernate off

When you want to enable it again just write:

powercfg /hibernate on

Left 4 Dead crashes on Vista [Solved]

If you have played the game Left 4 Dead on windows Vista you may have noticed that on random times the game crashes with no obvious reason.
For this problem i hadn't found a valid solution for some time. The solution that worked for me is:

Step 1:
In the main menu screen of the game go to

Options -> Video
Click Advanced options and set the option multicore rendering to DISABLE

This solution did the trick for me. Before that i had tried all the options in Vistas compatibility mode but nothing worked.

Hibernation not working or isn't available in Windows Vista [Solved]

WIndows Vista have the bad habbit of deleting the Hibernation file when you excecute the Disc Cleanup utility.
This utility can be found when you right click on a hard disc and select Properties. After you choose to clean this file you will not be able to put your computer in hibernation mode. Fortunatly there is a simple solution.

Step 1:
Go to: Start menu -> All programs -> Accessories
and right click on the Command Prompt.

Step 2:
Select the option Run as an Administrator and accept the UAC warnings.

Step 3:
In the comand line write:

powercfg /hibernate on