UPS????

Where is the applet for configuring an UPS that would use USB or COM ports?

Hi,

Control Panel/Power Options/Change plan settings. You will find additional
options by clicking advanced ("battery" is near the bottom of the list,
expand the category to get timing options).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Some Guy in Kirkland" <mallyman@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Where is the applet for configuring an UPS that would use USB or COM
> ports?

There appears to be no support for an older UPS's that connects via a com
port.

I am using one of these and there is no battery option in any mentioned
space.

The UPS still works. Just no automatic shutdown. It keeps the computer
running until the battery is drained and then the computer turns off due to
lack of power.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ekb$Q81IHHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Control Panel/Power Options/Change plan settings. You will find additional
> options by clicking advanced ("battery" is near the bottom of the list,
> expand the category to get timing options).
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Some Guy in Kirkland" <mallyman@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:2F166E7D-8E0E-4947-A136-7F57A181742D@microsoft.com...
>> Where is the applet for configuring an UPS that would use USB or COM
>> ports?
>

turning off due to lack of power is what you do not want... same thing as
unplugging it from teh back or flipping the power switch...


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:usLZ6x3IHHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> There appears to be no support for an older UPS's that connects via a com
> port.
>
> I am using one of these and there is no battery option in any mentioned
> space.
>
> The UPS still works. Just no automatic shutdown. It keeps the computer
> running until the battery is drained and then the computer turns off due
> to lack of power.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ekb$Q81IHHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Control Panel/Power Options/Change plan settings. You will find
>> additional options by clicking advanced ("battery" is near the bottom of
>> the list, expand the category to get timing options).
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Some Guy in Kirkland" <mallyman@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:2F166E7D-8E0E-4947-A136-7F57A181742D@microsoft.com...
>>> Where is the applet for configuring an UPS that would use USB or COM
>>> ports?
>>
>

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:46:31 -0500, "Richard Urban"
<richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:

>There appears to be no support for an older UPS's that connects via a com
>port.
>
>I am using one of these and there is no battery option in any mentioned
>space.
>
>The UPS still works. Just no automatic shutdown. It keeps the computer
>running until the battery is drained and then the computer turns off due to
>lack of power.
Just one of the many small annoying things Vista has done :-/
Like you, many of my UPS are the older models with Serial only
control. Fresh batteries every so often keep them running and out of
the scrap heap (and save a few $$ ).

Vista *assumes* that we all run 'Vanilla' configurations.
How about those of us that have one large UPS running multiple desktop
computers?
Vista has forced a burden on many hardware venders to support a
entirely new way of doing things or risk losing current customers due
to near term support issues (<Rant>My list of "never purchase again"
is growing. Mostly NoName, but a few major players that are ducking
the issue of RTM, by claiming "when Retail is available" </Rant>).

There you go! Not compatible and never will be. It just lets me coast
through brownouts and short blackouts. If I am not at the computer when a
blackout occurs...................

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Some Guy in Kirkland" <mallyman@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:77C4602C-FB15-41B3-BF9A-0BB7EBC28556@microsoft.com...
> turning off due to lack of power is what you do not want... same thing as
> unplugging it from teh back or flipping the power switch...
>
>
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:usLZ6x3IHHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> There appears to be no support for an older UPS's that connects via a com
>> port.
>>
>> I am using one of these and there is no battery option in any mentioned
>> space.
>>
>> The UPS still works. Just no automatic shutdown. It keeps the computer
>> running until the battery is drained and then the computer turns off due
>> to lack of power.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:ekb$Q81IHHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Control Panel/Power Options/Change plan settings. You will find
>>> additional options by clicking advanced ("battery" is near the bottom of
>>> the list, expand the category to get timing options).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best of Luck,
>>>
>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>>
>>> "Some Guy in Kirkland" <mallyman@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:2F166E7D-8E0E-4947-A136-7F57A181742D@microsoft.com...
>>>> Where is the applet for configuring an UPS that would use USB or COM
>>>> ports?
>>>
>>
>