February 2010 - An Insomniac Geek

HP Optimized Power Plan on Windows 7

In the downloads section on the support pages on http://www.hp.com for my HP EliteBook 8730w, I did found that HP is offering something called “System Default Settings for Microsoft Windows 7” One thing that this installs is a new power plan called HP Optimized, which actually replaces the default Balanced power plan.

So what differs between the two? I compared them and come to the following differences:

Balanced	HP Optimized
Sleep/Hibernate after/On battery 360 minutes Sleep/Hibernate after/Plugged in: 360 minutes	Sleep/Hibernate after/On battery 1080 minutes Sleep/Hibernate after/Plugged in: 1080 minutes
Power buttons and lid/Lid close action/Plugged in: Sleep Power buttons and lid/Power button action/On battery: Sleep Power buttons and lid/Power button action/Plugged in: Sleep	Power buttons and lid/Lid close action/Plugged in: Do nothing Power buttons and lid/Power button action/On battery: Shut down Power buttons and lid/Power button action/Plugged in: Shut down
Display/Display brightness/Plugged in: 100%	Display/Display brightness/Plugged in: 56%

When you are customizing a SharePoint list with a custom schema.xml file, you may also want to set the ViewStyle for your View.

You do that by adding a <ViewStyle ID="xx"/> element within the <View> element. For exampl ID 17 corresponds to the "Shaded" view style.

Here’s a table with the common ViewStyles available, as defined in the <12 HIVE>\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\VWStyles.xml

This was unexpected, and not documented at all in the SharePoint SDK.

When you create a UserMulti column, you must also specify Mult=”TRUE”, otherwise it will fall back to a standard (single select) User column type.

<Field ID=”{12312312-1234-1234-1234-123412341234}”

…
Group=”My Group”
Type=”UserMulti”
Mult=”TRUE”

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