I have Vista Home Premium with SP 1 installed a couple months ago. Laptop.
These settings will bring you to a working desktop after waking up from
Hibernate.
1) Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\User Accounts > password
deleted from Administrator password. (I had initially logged onto the welcome
screen as the Administrator, password protected, but later changed it to
bypass welcome screen with user account icons.)
2) Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Power Options >require a password on
wake up
Click on “change settings that are currently available†then select “Don’t
require a password.†Save.
Now every time I wake up from hibernate the screen goes to the working
desktop.
If you have those settings and computer still doesn’t wake up to a working
desktop and since Power Settings differ with computer models, you might want
to check if there are any parameters that need to be set in the computer’s
present Power Mode.
Hope this helps.