Closing laptop makes vista sleep, interrupting shutdown

[Guest]

Hi there,

If I power off my laptop with Vista it takes a few seconds to shutdown
(about 20 or so). If I close the lid on my laptop before it shuts down
completely, Vista will go into sleep mode. The next time I open my laptop it
will wake up, just so that it can finish shutting down. Why does this happen?

Wouldn't it be better if it just shutdown?

Thanks, John

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Laptops have switches that detect closure and automatically go into sleep
mode if the OS is still running.. the obvious answer is to wait until the OS
has completely shut down..

Hi there,

If I power off my laptop with Vista it takes a few seconds to shutdown
(about 20 or so). If I close the lid on my laptop before it shuts down
completely, Vista will go into sleep mode. The next time I open my laptop
it
will wake up, just so that it can finish shutting down. Why does this
happen?

Wouldn't it be better if it just shutdown?

Thanks, John

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[GE]

You should be able to tell the laptop what to do when you close the
lid..Check power options

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, yeah obviously wait for it to shutdown would work - or disabling
sleep altogether. But I guess what I'm really hoping for is a change to the
OS, if it's shutting down don't let anything interrupt it (e.g. a sleep
command), but if not shutting down, then let a sleep command go ahead. My
old laptop with XP was able to do this (I would shutdown and immediately
close the laptop & it would continue shutting down fully). Could it be put
in as a suggestion for SP1 or something?

From what I know it's not a hardware issue, or am I wrong?

Thanks.

 

[Flyerfan27]

There is a place in power settings to tell the laptop what to do when you
close the lid. When you were running XP that setting had to be set at "Do
Nothing" and your new laptop is set to go to sleep. You do not need to
disable sleep mode to stop this. Just go to Power Settings and on the left
hand side of the folder you will see something about Set what to do when
closing
the lid. Click on that and then set the lid to do nothing when closed and
your problem will be solved. Vista did not change anything here. It is the
same as XP. It is just your setting are different. If you have any problems
with this let me know.

Good luck, James

 

[Guest]

Changing the settings when we close the lid does not help. I want the laptop
to go to sleep when I close the lid. I do not want to shut down close the
lid then come back later to work and have to wait for the OS to finish
shutting down. It just seems like an oversight in design. I should not have
to wait until it shuts down to close the lid.

It is very annoying that suspend/sleep interrupts the shutdown and should be
a relatively easy fix to put into SP1. The OS should have a flag stating
that it is shutting down. When another command tries to put the OS the
sleep, it should just check that flag.

 

[Anon]

I had similar problems before but I was too impatient and removed the
battery after five minutes

Remove the system restore and disable Superfetch and Windows Defender, this
will help you.