I am using windows 7 ultimate. When i login or shut down I cant hear any music. I have a acer laptop. There is no problem with the sound card. I can play songs in windows media player and it works just fine. Its only the login and shutdown sounds. Please help on how i can enable them.

It seems that the default Windows 7 setting is to shut a SATA storage drive off after being inactive in something like 15 minutes. I don’t think this is very healthy for my HD because I use the PC almost all day, and it ends up shutting down and restarting all the time. Is there a place in the control panel where I can turn this timer off?