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Hello, I have three questions/problems to address
1. The power meter gauge displayed in the taskbar area flickers maybe every 10 seconds or so, why is that and is there a solution to the annoying issue?
2. At any given point of time, I have at least 40% of RAM occupied, even when I restart the computer and before starting any program. Is that reserved for graphics card? What is the deal?
3. My computer will not enter sleep mode on its own, I have the computer set to go into screensaver mode after 10 minutes, then sleep after 60 60 minutes, but it only goes into screensaver. I have the sleep setting in Lenovo power management and I can see it reflected in Windows power management too. Can anyone help me fix this issue please?

1. I don't use the Thinkpad gauge. Vista gadget is IMO better / More informative.

2. Windows Vista uses memory more "*nix-like" than for example XP. It reserves more physical memory and reduces swapping to HDD compared to XP. Why are windows-people always so obsessed to have a lot of free memory? You have paid for the memory, use it! I'm running T60 w 2Gb mem and 1.35Gb is used. And I love it. It's made for using, not being idle. (And my comp's not swapping to slow HDD...)

3. Strange. Is everything (Thinkvantage) updated?

3. Make sure you have disable the 'wake on LAN' setting in your wirleless/ethernet card profile.

gator wrote:3. Make sure you have disable the 'wake on LAN' setting in your wirleless/ethernet card profile.

Thank you for the advice, that was one of the first things I tried but still no luck.

CP-Geek wrote: 3. Strange. Is everything (Thinkvantage) updated?

Thank you for the comments, but I run the update frequenlty (plus it is scheduled to run on its own too).

Well, Sort of, I tried to uninstall Migration Assistant and my computer started acting funky, every time I boot it up it tries to configure migration assistant and gets stuck on that screen, and my kaspersky AV would not work for some reason. I tried restore from previous backup but that did not help. Therefore, I formatted and reinstalled windows. This resolved the entering into sleep mode, now my computer goes to sleep, the battery gauge is not flickering anymore, and I have a fresh install.