I'm sorry to say,  but this will be about as much help as your post:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9090/learning-windows-7-manage-power-settings/

What OS is installed?  need to know that to help in the slightest.

/wave Tycho!

How's deepbit doing these days?  It's been over a year since I've done any significant mining,  but whenever I do,  I STILL point at deepbit. 

Glad to see it's still around!  always preferred it for some reason!

Nice and sunny day here in Winnipeg (in Canada!)

on the one hand,  I miss the rain.  on the other hand:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/flood/flood_graph/

not overly interested in that getting much higher.

"BEST" OS?  depends on way too many variables to be a useful question IMHO.

Personally,  I get mad at windows constantly for silly things  (like making it difficult to capture low level event subsystem information,  or some of the silly "Oh no,  you shouldn't be doing something this way"  messages you get.

Honestly though,  main workstation these days is a windows 7 machine, with about 40 putty windows,  12 RDP sessions, and 5 VNC sessions.   

Mining:  I've always preferred any custom linux distro.  all it takes is drivers + an application that can send work to cards.   

Glad I stumbled across this. 

as one of the many "long time readers, first time writers"  I was trying to make a significant contribution to a forum,  but was instead forced to spend a few minutes searching for a reply button only to not find one.

The PM restriction is Dumb IMHO:  (wanted to send a PM to ask why I had no reply button.  Didn't think "for some reason,  I must have agreed not to post/PM people when I signed up BACK IN 2011")

The post limit,  on a 2+ year old account is a pain in the behind.    But such is life I guess.  Spam is spam!

Awwwww Yeah:
http://xkcd.com/538/