I had similar problems before but I was too impatient and removed the
battery after five minutes :-)
Remove the system restore and disable Superfetch and Windows Defender, this
will help you.
"jSlides" <jSlides@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07C972D7-BEE2-4AA4-8D58-940C23233646@microsoft.com...
> Changing the settings when we close the lid does not help. I want the
> laptop
> to go to sleep when I close the lid. I do not want to shut down close the
> lid then come back later to work and have to wait for the OS to finish
> shutting down. It just seems like an oversight in design. I should not
> have
> to wait until it shuts down to close the lid.
>
> It is very annoying that suspend/sleep interrupts the shutdown and should
> be
> a relatively easy fix to put into SP1. The OS should have a flag stating
> that it is shutting down. When another command tries to put the OS the
> sleep, it should just check that flag.
>
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
>
>> Laptops have switches that detect closure and automatically go into sleep
>> mode if the OS is still running.. the obvious answer is to wait until the
>> OS
>> has completely shut down..
>>
>>
>> "jellyedwards" <jellyedwards@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F7619582-480F-4AC0-8A69-004024A44BC9@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > If I power off my laptop with Vista it takes a few seconds to shutdown
>> > (about 20 or so). If I close the lid on my laptop before it shuts down
>> > completely, Vista will go into sleep mode. The next time I open my
>> > laptop
>> > it
>> > will wake up, just so that it can finish shutting down. Why does this
>> > happen?
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be better if it just shutdown?
>> >
>> > Thanks, John
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Mike Hall
>> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>>
>>
>>
>>