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After a couple of unsuccessfully attempted to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1; it seems that I “forgot” to disable my anti-virus software! Then it installed fine.

Vista does seem to perform better/quicker since SP1, but, for me, it introduced a major show-stopper!

Hibernation stopped working!

I google’d the problem to see if anyone else had the same issue — and knew how to resolve it. It took me a while, probably because Vista SP1 is still “new” (officially), then I found the answer! [direct link]

Seems that there was an issue with the BCD – this doesn’t surprise me, as I do dual-boot with Ubuntu.

Here is the solution from the TechNet Vista SP1 forum:

1. Run CMD.EXE as administrator

2. Run the following command: bcdedit -enum all

Look for “Resume from Hibernate” in the output from the command above(example below):

Resume from Hibernate

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identifier {3d8d3081-33ac-11dc-9a41-806e6f6e6963}

device partition=C:

path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe

description Windows Vista (TM) Enterprise (recovered)

inherit {resumeloadersettings}

filedevice partition=C:

filepath \hiberfil.sys

pae Yes

debugoptionenabled No

3. Once you have found it, copy the value for identifier (in this example – {3d8d3081-33ac-11dc-9a41-806e6f6e6963})

4. Run the following command: bcdedit /deletevalue {3d8d3081-33ac-11dc-9a41-806e6f6e6963} inherit

5. Test hibernation.

This worked for me! Good luck with your Vista SP1 installation!

A couple of months ago I’d heard that the BBC Radio Labs had developed a desktop widget that scrobbled the songs you listen to on BBC Radio (currently only available for Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music and 1 Xtra) [via Last.fm]

I’m not a big fan of gimmicky desktop widgets -  it’s bad enough that Vista comes with them as default – some people love them, some hate them… I just prefer less clutter on my desktop!

The other day I was listening to a lot of Radio 1… to which I thought it would be nice to have these songs scrobbled on my Last.fm profile.  So I bit the bullet and downloaded Yahoo! Widgets and the BBC Radio + Last.fm widget. (OS X widget is also available)

So far I’ve been fairly impressed with the way it works.  That is, once I’d hidden all the gimmicky widgets – yes I already have a clock in my taskbar; the weather outside is cold and wet… I know this already, this is England after all!

To follow up to my rant a few weeks ago (More Vista Woes on my old blog), it seems that Microsoft have taken note everyone’s complaints about the forced reboot.
After putting off my Windows Vista updates for as long as possible, I finally succumbed…

Once all the updates were installed, I’m prompted with the same “Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” message. But now the countdown timer is gone!!!

So at least I don’t need to worry as much when I go off to make a cup of tea again!