Mystery of Hibernation in Windows Vista

My system drive is running low in space, so I decided to do a disk cleanup. There are files called "Hibernation File Clearer", which takes over 2.74G. I selected and did the clean. This action caused HIBERNATION choice disappeared from Vista everywhere: menu, control panel, etc.

To turn on hibernate in Windows Vista, I have to:
1. Run cmd.exe as adminstrator by holding the shift and right click the cmd.exe and choose Run As Administrator.
2. Type the "powercfg /hibernate on".

Windows Live Photo Gallery

It looks that Microsoft has lifted the region restriction to Windows Live Photo Gallery, since my original Chinese version WLPG can finally upload pictures to the spaces associated with my hotmail account based on Canada.

It organizes local photos by category, folder, or time, live the Vista stand alone version. Adding pictures to the colletion is slow, probably it is waiting computer idling time to do the job. However, there is no way to speed it up, make it very frustrating when you are waiting for it.

Uploading is very slow too, comparing to the picasa web album services. Re-organizing and adding caption to the uploaded pictures are easy to deal with.

One nice feature to compare WLPC to picasa is that the automatic preview when mouse is moved over the pictures.

One important reason I want to try Windows Live Photo Gallery is expecting some level integration of the online ablum to MSN messenger. Although, new added the pictures have been shown on messenger sidebar, they are so small that barely see any pictures details. It is really suck there is no way to do any customization to it.

So basically see no reason to switch from Picasa to Live Photo Gallery.

Windows Live Folers (Beta) Opens to Public

Windows Live Folders are now available to any hotmail users. When I signed in by my user account, it shows me 500M space immediately and allow me to create personal folders, shared folders, and public folders. In the personal folders category, there are further choices available: Documents, Musics, and Pictures. I tried to add mp3 files to Musics; unfortunately I didn't find the way to stream music file to play directly instead of downloading to local first. Actually, it is a feature I like to see Windows Home Server would support too.

Then I let wife tried her account which has never been used to try any live services. After login in, she was ask to agree the agreement of live services and then brought to the folders home page. Very smooth, easy to adopt this service. Is it from Microsoft?