You may have disabled hibernate feature (possibly using Disk Cleanup). See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;928897
for how to reenable it.
Michael
"notaguru" <notaguru-obvious@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In Control Panel >> Power >> What to do when lid is closed, I see three
> choices: DO NOTHING, SLEEP, and SHUT DOWN.
>
> SLEEP seems to be 'Standby'.
>
> My preference is that the unit would HIBERNATE when lid is closed. Is that
> possible?