Vista Tutorial - Sleep Shortcut

I just downloaded and installed the Sleep Shortcut. When I tried it, I had to use the power button to resume from sleep. But then as an experiment, I typed in the command POWERCFG -H OFF (to turn off hibernation) and used the Sleep Shortcut. I could then resume from sleep by pressing a key on the keyboard. So maybe it has something to do with the computer's hibernate configuration.

Brink they are right I tried it to it asked me to close firefox i got the option save and quit etc and then it says windows is shutting down and i have to power back on from the computer...so technically it is shutdown not sleep.

Good tut but for the people it didn't work for try this!

Sleep shortcut simplified

thanks for the help brink

No problem Isikh.

Thanks for the addition.

Hello everyone, pleased to meet you all.
I think Brink’s shortcut behaves how you have the ‘Start Menu Power button’ configured. Through the ‘Control panel, Power Options, Change advanced power settings, Change settings that are currently unavailable, Power buttons and lid’ option.
Btw. Great site everyone, I keep on coming back and learn things here. Keep up the Good work !!

Hello Flo-TLSC, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Thank you for providing the missing link to why people were having problems with the shortcut. I can confirm that the shortcut performs the action of whatever the Start Menu power button is set as.

Thank you again,
Shawn

My computer goes into a hibernation and powers off but it does not ask to close anything and when I press start button every thing comes back on including Firefox, although it does take me to the welcome screen where my user profile is shown as locked but I just click on my pic and every thing is as I left it.

Also I have my power button set to shut down.

I still like this shortcut so thanks anyway Brink!!... plus its saves power and you don't need to reboot

LOL Mr GRiM,

Just when we thought we had it nailed down.

Strange, but I did have hibernation disabled though when I tested the Start menu power button with Sleep and Shutdown.

Sorry Brink, I just downloaded your shortcut again as I was not totally sure if it was the same one, as I think I had a look at your thread a while ago but then used a different shortcut. Anyway you are totally correct and this shortcut does duplicate whatever your main button is set to do in the start menu, when tested again it shut down completely the same as I have it set to do.

Here is the target for the shortcut that I was using:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
Start in: "%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState"

Sorry again for the confusion

LOL, ok Mr GRiM.

Thank you for confirming it again. LOL

Hey all..

Question about this old thread. I've got the Sleep shortcut on my desktop and it works fine when I just double-click it. Goes right to sleep.

However, if I have Task Scheduler run it at a particular time, it pops up the regular logoff prompt with the pulldown menu (Sleep, Shut Down, etc.) and waits for my response.

Any ideas on that? It happens on both of my Vista PCs. Both power buttons are configured to sleep.

Thanks..

Adam