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Windows Vista has a neat new feature for laptops called “hybrid sleep”.
Windows used to have a fairly simple hardware suspend command called “standby”.
With the OS state simmering in memory like that, entering and exiting sleep is nearly instantaneous.
That’s where hybrid sleep comes in.
This ensures that even if power is lost, the data will remain.
This all sounds like a good idea, but in practice it’s just as slow as standby was.
This means that unless the battery is physically removed, power to the RAM is never unexpectedly cut.
Thus, we don’t really need the hybrid sleep feature.
Unfortunately, giving hybrid sleep the pink slip is a little harder than it could be.
Once in the resulting dialog, choose “Change advanced power prefs”.
Now you oughta scroll through the miles and miles of options to find the “Sleep” node.
Expand this, and then the “Allow hybrid sleep” node below it.
You should see two options, “On battery” and “Plugged in”.
Set both of these to “Off”.
Once this is done, click “OK” and you should be all set!
