I think it's pretty apparent by now that the stock settings for your system don't show what it's truly capable of, and to do so, you may have to dig deep into the BIOS menu to change certain settings ...

My notebook is my main computer, and I prefer to leave it running when not in use to avoid the warm-up cool-down cycles that stresses components. I always go into Power Options when I'm done and set ...

You don't have to tolerate the little annoyances.

This may well be overly simple and arcane but I need to know either way... I am seeking to modify to registry settings (XP et al) back to the value of "(value not set)" in the registry and I can not ...