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Before, when I unplugged the AC charger for my laptop Windows would automatically do theme related things like disable transparency etc. but now when I unplug it, it stays the same theme as before 
Anyone know how to fix this? I've tried resetting the theme in the "Personalize" section of the Control Panel.
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Quote: when I unplugged the AC charger for my laptop Windows
What does plugging or unplugging of the adapter has to do with the theme change ?
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It disables all the fancy theme effects to conserve battery power?
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Thanks for letting me know about this. Will try this option 
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It's the default action on Windows 7, which is why I'm trying to turn it back on. Something must have happened to turn it off, and it's had a noticeable effect on battery life 
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Check Control Panel > Power Options > Choose when to turn off display (Edit Plan Settings) > Change advanced power settings.
This may be what you are looking for.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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What's your power plan set to? Maybe you accidentally switched it to "High performance"?
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It's stopped working on all the power plans
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Then you need to give it to me and buy another one.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Either disable the battery hogging eye-candy permanently or don't unplug it. Ever.
Seriously, after trying unsuccessfully to make my home machine sleep, I've pretty much given up on power-related woes.
Have you looked at powercfg (command line) and its zillion options? There may be some hope there but personally I think reinstalling the OS will be faster.
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I have a Toshiba 500 gb external hard drive when it is connected to my Windows 7 Pro 32 bit system
the system will not boot
Are there settings in my BIOS I can change or can I change settings in the hard drive so the system does not
think that the external hard drive is a CD/DVD
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Your BIOS almost certainly has a "boot order" setup item. Put your hard disk before external media. (But remember how you did it so you can change back if you need to recover Windows from CD or whatever.)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I do not have a external hard drive listed as an option ?
I have CD/DVD listed first then the internal hard drive then
the USB
I have the same settings on my desktop and it will boot with the
the external hard drive connected
any other thoughts
I have also noticed that I can not eject the external hard drive once I do a backup to it
I have to up plug it or shut the system down to remove the external hard drive
any other thoughts
OH I tried this no results
Plug in and turn on the external USB hard drive
Right mouse click on My Computer
Left click on Manage
Left click on Device Manager
Expand the USB list
Find the USB device for your USB Hard Drive (in my case it was the one that had no description)
Right mouse click - Uninstall
Turn off the external USB hard drive
Turn on the external USB hard drive and let it find and install the driver
It should work
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Re. the boot order: just to make sure, try set the internal hard drive as the first in the list, then CD/DVD and USB.
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Absolutely! 
Always have Internal HDD as the first boot source, never USB: you don't know what the heck a random USB is going to boot if you leave it plugged in... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Place I previously worked had servers at a hundred locations around the country.
We moved from backing up on internal tape drives to USB memory sticks.
If the servers went down they wouldn't come back up again.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yeah - but nice computers don't go down... :InnocentWhistleSmiley:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Oh these weren't nice computers.
They were bought as Viglen Windows PCs that then had Red Hat Linux installed on them before being sent to live in the dirtiest, smallest transport offices you can imagine with no UPS.
I wired one directly into a heater switch because there was no available socket for it.
We lost one after rats chewed through the kettle lead. Others were often unplugged so people could use the sockets, once for a fan heater, although in a different office to the one mentioned above.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yes, I know that feeling: you can add signs, gaffer tape and even threats, but some stupid sunshine is going to unplug anyway "because I needed the Hoover" 
In my case it was the file / db server. And the Hoover was needed for? An oil based ink spill...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yeah, that sucks 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Yep. It sucked.
Then it sprayed.
Then it died.
Then the wall needed redecorating.
He tried to claim for new trousers since he couldn't get the ink out, but...um..."quiet words" were had with him 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We had some computers serving as automated operator's consoles on a mainframe system handling operations for a BIG airline. I would get called in at 3am to investigate why they had gone off-line. I would get there, check everything, power up and all was well - weird! it turns out that the cleaners would come in at night, unplug the PC for the vacuum cleaner, clean, and then plug it back in. Occasionally the PC wouldn't restart automatically and I would get called at shift change when the operators would notice the console wasn't up! To fix it I spent several nights there until I saw the cleaners do it. I tried to tell them not to but my Spanish wasn't up to it. I managed to find their supervisor and told him to tell them not to do this. They still did because the alternative was to drag a long extension around with them and this was easier. I then told the supervisor that there was a risk of aeroplanes crashing if this system was unplugged and that they were on camera and would be found out in the crash investigation. This fixed it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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chriselst wrote: I wired one directly into a heater switch because there was no available socket for it.
lol. There is just no way I want to see "server" and that above statement anywhere close to each other.
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Thank You to all for the replies
By changing the Boot Order in the BIOS so the USB device is last on the list provided the FIX
The reason for the Fix is when the Easeus Todo Free Back up software does a recovery
it wants to restart the computer with the External Hard Drive connected
What was confusing is the Windows 7 Pro Desktop did not require this change for the system to boot
with the external hard drive connected
enjoy
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Think about it. Fooling with Windows Device Manager isn't going to help the BIOS at boot time.
As Henry said, put your hard drive first in boot order.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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