shandy wrote:have an Amilo pro V3545 with Vista & never had anything like that...anyway - is your battery life shorter than before? Most of the hardware if proper drivers installed have an energy saving capability and turn off/inhibit the hardware's energy consumption if not being used (wireless, bluetooth, sound etc) so the only thing that stays is to check the powersaving mode when on batteries). I personally got rid off Vista (3 hours of battery life) & installed XP instead (3,5 - 3,75 hrs of battery life). If you want to save some energy and have a much more responsive OS, just get rid off the Vista resource hog...
Discusing XP vs Vista isn't wise, it leads nowhere couse it is a metter of a taste.
And I can assure you that Vista has much better power management if set properly.
BTW. Do you remember the days when XP was initaly released ?
It was full of bugs and BSOD's and nobody liked it compared to earlyer OS's.
But it had several years to evolve to SP3 and so many other hotfixes to become what it is today.
So live this kind of topics aside...