Windows 10 - How to set Power Management for Digital Acquisition & Control Systems.

When using Digital Acquisition & Control (DAC) systems sometimes you might find that you get timeout error messages, this can be caused by many factors. The quick and easiest is to make sure that the machine isn't set to sleep or the operating system allowed to control power management of the hard disk, USB sockets and the PCI Express

 It is also worth noting the hard disk free space, memory and when using USB make sure you're not drawing too much power from the sockets

Here are some screenshots of how to change them:

Type "Edit Power Plan" on the search bar and

Click on "Change advanced power settings"

Free Windows software

Video Tools

• Handbrake - HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. http://handbrake.fr/


• VLCPlayer - Open-source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, which can also stream audio and video in a number of formats - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Linux Tools

• Putty - A Free Telnet/SSH Client. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


• Putty Manager - Tabbed PuTTY Interface!http://sourceforge.net/projects/puttymanager/


• SSH  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshwindows/

Editors

• SCITE - SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html


• Notepad++ - a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. http://notepad-plus-plus.org/


• Notepad2 - a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html


• Hex32 - Freeware Hex editor XVI32 for all 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows. Many features including a built-in script language. http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

Hard disk tool

• Wcontig - THE FREE FILE DEFRAGMENTATION TOOL http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/

File managers

• Free commander -  is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows http://www.freecommander.com


• Total commander - a file manager replacement for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. http://www.ghisler.com

Compression

• 7zip - is a open source file archiver with a high compression ratio. GUI and command line options. GNU LGPL license. http://www.7-zip.org

WIFI Scanner

• inSSIDer - The Best Wi-Fi Scanner. http://www.inssider.com/


• NetStumbler: The award-winning wireless networking tool http://www.netstumbler.com/