Vista won't go to Sleep

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This was getting on my nerves. but I saw the reference to POWERCFG and
had a play with that. My desktop PC with RC1 Vista was not sleeping (it
would spin the disks down, blank the screen then wake up and I'd be back
at the "login" screen - type in password and you're back where you
started...)

Seems my mouse was the problem (it's a USB Optical MS wheel mouse - not
wireless)

I typed:

D:\Users\Derek>POWERCFG -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical

D:\Users\Derek>POWERCFG -DEVICEDISABLEWAKE "Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse
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Optical"

D:\Users\Derek>POWERCFG -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

And now I can sleep. I had to open a command window as administrator to
disable the mouse as a wake device.

This may work for other sleepless users.

Derek
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Great advice. I had my High Definition Audio Controller on my Dell
Dimension set up to wake my computer, and this is the only way I could
disable it.

Thanks Derek!
 
Excellent recommendation!

Changing the setting under Multimedia Settings, advanced power setting, when
sharing media, "allow the computer to sleep" fixed my HP running Vista Home
Premium.

Thanks!
 
I had this exact problem... exact mouse and everything. Thanks!
After following your steps, I'm now able to sleep. Cheers.
 
Well I have solved the sleep problem for my computer. After trying everything
(and I do have a wireless keyboard and mouse) I found my culprit. I have a
home network and media sharing was turned on. Somehow this is what was
preventing my computer from going into sleep mode. I turned off media sharing
in the Network and Sharing Center and rebooted my computer. After that no
problem with sleeping at all.
Hope this helps others.

Marc
 
I tried MarcS recomendation and the other ones about advaced power options..
enable selective support for usb...allow to sleed in multimedia and nothing
works. my comp wont go to sleep as timers ask it to.
 
WOW DEREKK!!!!!

You are a godsend (or at least the information you provide is).

This worked great!

I had to disable my keyboard as well for it to work but now I can sleep!

Thanks.

Is there a way to reenable devices again?
 
I followed the steps and everything worked great for about a week until I
installed a new application (urge and a folder share app). Now the computer
is back to it's old ways of waking the second it goes to sleep. Are there any
other suggestions? has their been talk of a patch?
 
seeking said:
I have several problems with the Vista Home Basic that I have just
installed.

1 Sleep option is not even highlighted, so I cant put vista to sleep.
The only options are Switch User, Log off, Lock, Restart, Shut Down.

2 My keyboard is all screwed up. I live and work in Germany but do not
use the home computer for German. My vista and all application software
is all in English. The keyboard has German characters, too. But the keys
y and z are switched. The upper case characters (on the top row, above
the numerals) and all special characters are not what I see. I have
alreadz tried the language and kezboard settings, added German, but no
use. What am I doing wrong?
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Control Panel | Clock, Language and Regional Settings | Keyboard and
Language
 
"seeking" ...
Hi everyone!

I have several problems with the Vista Home Basic that I have just
installed.

1 Sleep option is not even highlighted, so I cant put vista to sleep.
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Introduce it to Adam & Alias. ;-)
 
seeking said:
Thanks Frank

I have managed to configure the keyboard so that what I type is what I
see. Thanks.

Now, that leaves the problem of sleep like before. It is not even
highlighted and I tried everything that everyone has suggested on this
forum. No luck yet.

Meanwhile, I still have to detach the hard disk from the old XP and
attach it to the new computer that runs vista home basic. I hope it is
simple enough. Any hints and warnings are most appreciated.
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Sorry, I know nothing about Sleep - I never use it since my computers are
always working.
 
are you sure you selected run as administrator when you started the prompt?
it'll make a big difference
 
i'm having hard time trying to figure out what happen, do you have anyway of
maybe reseting the changes like a program that restores the power plan or
something or are you using windows power manager

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Jonathan Perreault
Word Of Advice: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work,
Or It'll Undermine You As A User
 
THANK YOU! This was driving me nuts. The Multimedia setting did it for me.
I'm going to name my next child stukindaguy! :-)
 
Hi again guys,

This time, Ive put Vista on a different set of hardware and (touch wood), so
far all seems to be working.

However, like a lot of people, I cant set a program to record and have the
PC go into full standby.

I can set the PC to record, put it to 'sleep' then it records whilst asleep
then I can bring it out of sleep by pressing the MCE remote and its recorded
OK. This isnt going to sleep though, its fake, the fans still go and
everything is still churning away, just the screen is off.

Ive checked and our machine is capable of S3 and thats turned on. Ive played
with power settings in the control panel, Ive even disabled USB's (apart from
remote) from being able to wake the PC and made sure the PC can shut off
their power in Device Manager. Still, no joy.

Has anyone actually found a definitive answer or way of setting the PC to
work properly? ie: go into full standby but wake itself up to record a
program then standby again?

Thanks,
Ross
 
S3 is hibernate, is that what you are wanting, S1 is suspend to low power.
You can see if you have the latest BIOS for your MOBO, the latest drivers
for ACPI from your MOBO, but if they aren't compatible with Vista, if you
have the correct settings in Vista (I assume you drilled into the advanced
settings available), then you pretty much have to wait. Personally, since
my recordings take place at the same time every night I use the MOBO alarm
function to wake up the computer and the recording program to shut it down.
 
Sleep State Description
S0
The computer is on and fully functional.

S1
The computer appears to be off with the CPU stopped. RAM is refreshed,
and the computer is running in a low power mode.

S2
The computer appears to be off with the CPU stopped. RAM is refreshed,
and the computer is running in a lower power mode than S1.

S3 (Standby)
The computer appears to be off with no power to the CPU. RAM is in slow
refresh.

S4 (Hibernate)
The computer appears to be off with no power to the hardware. System
memory has been saved as a temporary file on the hard disk.

S5 (Off)
The computer is off with no power to the hardware, and the operating
system has been shut down without saving system memory to disk.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
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