Reading all your messages has been like hearing the latest updates on my three sisters. That's a compliment and sincere thank you. Crohn's disease, Graves disease, fibromyalgia and arthritis (Rheumatoid/Osteo)have reared their ugly heads among my 3 sisters but left me inexplicably unscathed. The family is an autoimmune minefield...LOL. After the ONE night I went home to get some sleep I came back to my father's house to find 2 cars and no father. When your 82 year old father is MIA without explanation you naturally worry. Turns out he had a second serious bout of Atrial Fibrillation and went to the hospital without telling me. Ask me if I wasn't feeling guilty for leaving him and upset with him for not calling me. He didn't want to interfere with me taking my best friend to a colonoscopy appointment Monday AM. I didn't sleep again Monday or Tuesday nights but got a couple hours sleep earlier tonight when I landed back at my father's with Pop in tow from hospital/cardiology office. No Coumadin yet until results of 3 week montoring device show if he's having small episodes of A-Fib when he gets chest tightness on treadmill at gym. Coumadin and exercised induced symptoms are the worst for him. He's extrememly active physically (so he doesn't fall asleep!) although we're having memory issues. Well, I've whined again but it feels better to get it out. I went outside yesterday at first light to rake and do a little garden clean up. It was glorious and relaxing. If all stays well for next week or so I'll have cooked my 5th Thanksgiving dinner and actually gotten somewhat used to it. Part of family will be here and Dad can have his turkey dinner without dietary restrictions of blood thinner. He's all about his food but luckily for me not picky...LOL. All in all, I'm a pretty lucky chickadee tonight. :) Good wishes for all of your health challenges as well. I think I'm going to get some Lavender heat wraps to relax me when I'm exhausted but can't sleep.

It's a little complex because two or more controlling software's might be trying to control the machine's behavior. First educate yourself about what brings it out of sleep mode. I know that the modem can (by a phone call coming in the comptuer can be woken up so as to take the call be it a fax or internet) Since dialup is dead to most people know that the network card can work the same way. So turn off the 'wake upon lan" or similar setting that means this: When the LAN (network card) gets a request to transfer data it wakes up the computer. You can shut this off but where? It can be set in many places. The bios might have a setting. Windows might have a setting for it. And any software for the network card itself could have a setting. (This is often part of the Windows setting section) Go poke and search these bits first. Without knowing the network and modem cards are not going to wake up the computer you are wasting time. Verify they aren't at fault first. I'll check back in a few days. Andre

Yes, I do know you're not suppose to shut computer down with the power button but is was an all else failed situation and even that didn't work. Step two for me was to unplug the thing to shut it down and that's probably a terrible thing to do. But eventually it did start back up after several scary seconds. I just hope I don't have that problem again but it does seem to be an issue for some with windows 7.

Removing humidity via central air conditioner, minisplit, window unit, portable a/c unit with an exhaust hose, or standalone portable dehumidifier all involve refrigeration and cooling ... humid room air is pulled across a cold evaporator coil to entice the moisture to condense onto the surface of the coil ... like "sweat" on a cold soda can or glass of iced tea, etc. ... which is collected and drained away. Slow airflow rate promotes the moisture condensation. A Friedrich (rebadged LG) window unit at work has a Dry setting ... which sets the fan to low speed and automatic-cycling mode (vs. the fan blowing continuously). It can't be changed to any other speed on Dry. Regular Cool mode has three speeds and option of automatic or continuous fan. The thermostat continues to function to control the set room temperature on Dry, there's no evidence that it cools lower than the setpoint. Other units or systems may skew the thermostat a bit so that they can cool to a lower temp in an attempt to run longer and remove more moisture. My parents' Lennox central system with humidistat/humidity control does that ... there's a set-up option on the high-tech thermostat to specify how many °F below the setpoint it can cool in an attempt to reach the target humidity level. Mom mentioned a few months ago that they set it on 76°F but it sometimes cools to 74°F and dad gets cold. They had the humidity set on 45%, and I found the 2°F overcool in the setup menu. I explained to her why 74°F happens, she said "I don't understand what that means." I raised the humidity setting to 52% (but didn't change the overcool allowance since humidity is a concern on the TX coast). A standalone dehumidifier doesn't effectively cool the area because they don't exhaust the heat outdoors ... the cooled/dehumidified airflow is blown across the warm condensor coil inside the room space which rewarms it. The room temperature can increase because the compressor operation adds some heat. Central a/c systems, minisplits, window units, and portables with an exhaust hose don't work that way, they always cool the room ... except Patrick Pelletier on July 9 2020 above says his portable unit instructs to remove the exhaust hose so the warm exhaust air blows into the room instead of outdoors, which effectively turns it into a standalone dehumidifier-type of unit. Lower humidity feels cooler to the occupants because moisture/sweat evaporates off the skin much more readily for a cooling effect.