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03-07-2008
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| Guest | auto standby instead of auto sleep how do I get my vista home premimum system to automatically go to the standby mode after a certian amount of time to where it shuts down (no fans or hard drives running) so that when I start it back up it starts up faster and resumes where I left off. -- Mark |
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03-07-2008
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| Guest | Re: auto standby instead of auto sleep Click the Start orb and look for the lock icon at the bottom of the menu, right. There is an arrow icon next to that to put the system to 'standby', also called 'sleep' Control Panel/Power Options has a dropbox to choose 'sleep' and the time to wait till it happens. -- Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...APostAsHelpful Mark L. Ferguson .. "mark j cornelius" <markjcornelius@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F6E8B7F7-95AB-4A0A-8408-5E43BA619B35@xxxxxx Quote: > how do I get my vista home premimum system to automatically go to the > standby > mode after a certian amount of time to where it shuts down (no fans or > hard > drives running) so that when I start it back up it starts up faster and > resumes where I left off. > -- > Mark |
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03-07-2008
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| Administrator | Re: auto standby instead of auto sleep  Quote: Originally Posted by mark j cornelius  how do I get my vista home premimum system to automatically go to the standby mode after a certian amount of time to where it shuts down (no fans or hard drives running) so that when I start it back up it starts up faster and resumes where I left off. -- Mark In addition to Mark's post, follow Step Two in this tutorial and use the recommended settings in step 6 for Sleep. Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems Shawn |
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03-07-2008
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| Guest | Re: auto standby instead of auto sleep Go to Advance Power Settings. Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep. Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Never" Under USB settings select "Disable" Under Multimedia select "Allow ....." "mark j cornelius" <markjcornelius@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F6E8B7F7-95AB-4A0A-8408-5E43BA619B35@xxxxxx Quote: > how do I get my vista home premimum system to automatically go to the > standby > mode after a certian amount of time to where it shuts down (no fans or > hard > drives running) so that when I start it back up it starts up faster and > resumes where I left off. > -- > Mark |
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