power management? S2VP / keyboads and parition

[jades]

got an S2Vp and have updated all the stuff from the updates link. and windows has had a couple of auto-updates.

Vaio Power Management (SPMView.exe) comes up with "You cannot use Vaio Power Management when Vaio Power Management is disabled. Please open Power Options from the Control Panel and enable Vaio power management." ( i remember this working once -- it has a multicoloured histogram/map)

so i go to control panel/power options and there's no such option....?

is there a quick and easy whay to get rid of the 😧 drive -- it came with a C: and 😧 and i assume this is a partition. Or is this a complete reformat job?

Last question - when i boot the numlock keys are on by default -- for the laptop keyboard and i end up typeing 4,5,6 * for U,I,O,P and 123 for JKL etc... can this be changed anywhere?

[rich912]

I have no ideas on the Power Management question but yes you can resize your partitions without formatting and consequently loosing data. The procedure varies depending on whether the drive is Fat32 or NTFS. Assuming that it is Fat32 have a look here.
Bear in mind that if you remove the 😧 drive and store everything on C: then subsequently use your recovery disks all your data will be lost. A system recovery overwrites C:

Number Lock:
You can edit the Registry and make a change in
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard, look for InitialKeyboardIndicators and double-click it, change the number.

Value Data:
0 = NUMLOCK is turned off after logon
2 = NUMLOCK is turned on after logon

You'll have to reboot after making the change.

[jades]

thanks for this - i think it mightbe scr lk though not numlock (scrlk on as default -- where would i set it to off?)

[kee-lo_]

Scroll lock wouldn't cause the keys to be numbers.

Scroll lock is used for System Request (?), and pause

[rich912]

thanks for this - i think it mightbe scr lk though not numlock (scrlk on as default  -- where would i set it to off?)

The full codes are:
0 - All off
1 - Caps Lock on
2 - Num Lock on
3 - Caps Lock on and Num Lock on
4 - Scroll Lock on
5 - Caps Lock on and Scroll Lock on
6 - Num Lock on and Scroll Lock on
7 - Caps Lock on, Num Lock on, and Scroll Lock on

So setting the value to '0' will also turn off Scr Lk.

[jades]

that's odd.

registry says 'all off'

and when i boot i get a lock key light (not num lock light though ) fn-Numlock (labelled as Scrlk) switches this off and keyboard is 'normal'

so now i'm more stumped

[rich912]

Have a look in the Bios Setup to see if there is an option there to either enable or disable Scr Lk on boot. I am pretty certain that mine has no such option but yours may have.