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Thanks to Winapp2.ini and this post I must admit I'm now playing osu! It's working fine on my computer. I have Windows 7 64bits, 6GB of RAM and an on-board sound card.

It's still unclear to me. Is the whole system losing sound or just individual applications?

I'm almost sure this is because the final applicable frequency of your RAM is limited by the FSB of your CPU. For instance, if your CPU FSB is 2000MHz, and you have 3 sticks of 1333MHz RAM, each stick will be running at a maximum of 667MHz [2000 (FSB) / 3 (sticks)]. The above example is my scenario, which leads me to ask: Will I benefit from using just 2 sticks? Let's hope someone more enlightened in this topic comes to the rescue.

I find it amusing too!

I was a Nod32 user for years, until malware Virut stroke my system infecting every .exe, .html, etc. in all my hard drives. It took me 5 Windows reinstall to finally get rid of it and the help of Dr. Web Cure It and the Kaspersky online service. Since then I adopted Kaspersky Internet Security as my anti-virus of trust. No problems at all so far. Detections are always correct, low number of false positives, constant updates, etc. The company turned out to be very user friendly too. You gotta love anything with the K logo on it. Currently trying Kaspersky PURE.

Aha! "Green" drives... I have one of those inside the box, but I'm not sure if that is the one where Defraggler gets stuck. I'll pay more attention at next defragmentation. Windows takes some time to come back to life even though this "green" drive has no system partitions. Maybe Windows isn't shutting *all* disks down after all. Strangely enough, when uTorrent is running, no disk shuts down nor the system goes into Sleep Mode. By the way, I'm not using a laptop. Thanks all for sharing your thoughts.

First of all, I'd like to thank you DennisD just for taking the time to look into it. I haven't changed my Power Plan to High Performance but I did set Turn off hard disk after to Never. It should do the trick anyway. It seems like the Put computer to sleep option takes priority over the other options, which... could be seen as logical. The High Performance setting disables this option. One alternative is to completely prevent my computer from going into Sleep Mode. I don't want to get to that point yet, because I still want the low energy profile when it is really idle. Today I just noticed that while uTorrent is running, disks won't shut down. The settings are still the same, so applications seem to be able to control when computer is allowed to take energy-efficient measures.

Hi there. My installation of Windows 7 64bits persistently shut downs my hard drives when idle for too long, even though I have set the corresponding option to Never shut them down. This is particularly annoying when running Defraggler overnight only to find out the next morning that disks are off and Defraggler is stuck waiting for them to wake up. It would be nice, if you could add whatever is necessary to keep disks from turning off. Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.