Sugata

I am currently trying to find out how good is Windows Vista.

After installing it some months ago, the software I use is now fully compatible with it. And also hardware, thanks to Sony and the Vista Express Upgrade campaign (Sony Vaio SZ3HP/B).

The main problem is the battery lifetime: it appears that Windows Vista lasts about 2 hours. On the contrary Windows XP lasts 3 hours!
Searching for infos on the web I found that the main problems about Vista battery sucking are related to Aero and the SideBar. Refer to this blog-post.

I then decided to find out exactly how the two OS differ and installed Notebook Hardware Control (HNC).

After turning on the “log to file” option, no file was created.
Using Process Monitor (by SysInternal, acquired by Microsoft some times ago) I found out that NHC simply does not create the base path. Why?!? And why this bug has not yet been reported?

Solution:

Simply create the path by yourself!

1. Go into the log directory (clicking on the “…” button of NHC monitoring options form)
2. Create a directory named as the number of the day (using two digits)
3. Inside that directory, create another one named as the number of the month (using two digits)
4. Should work.
5. If not, comment to this topic

PS) I haven’t reported this bug because there is not contact on the website and the forum is in german :/