Flyerfan27

There is a place in power settings to tell the laptop what to do when you
close the lid. When you were running XP that setting had to be set at "Do
Nothing" and your new laptop is set to go to sleep. You do not need to
disable sleep mode to stop this. Just go to Power Settings and on the left
hand side of the folder you will see something about Set what to do when
closing
the lid. Click on that and then set the lid to do nothing when closed and
your problem will be solved. Vista did not change anything here. It is the
same as XP. It is just your setting are different. If you have any problems
with this let me know.

Good luck, James


"jellyedwards" <jellyedwards@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D1C7269-652C-449A-932E-AE2281893F36@microsoft.com...
> Thanks guys, yeah obviously wait for it to shutdown would work - or
> disabling
> sleep altogether. But I guess what I'm really hoping for is a change to
> the
> OS, if it's shutting down don't let anything interrupt it (e.g. a sleep
> command), but if not shutting down, then let a sleep command go ahead. My
> old laptop with XP was able to do this (I would shutdown and immediately
> close the laptop & it would continue shutting down fully). Could it be
> put
> in as a suggestion for SP1 or something?
>
> From what I know it's not a hardware issue, or am I wrong?
>
> Thanks.