Problem standing by

[Morgan Wick]

I have a Dell Inspiron B130. At times, when I close my laptop, the computer
will start the process to go on standby as it's supposed to. However, it
doesn't finish that process. It doesn't return an error to my knowledge. It
just sits there with the power light on. I open the laptop, close the laptop,
run my finger across the touchpad, click the mouse buttons, hit ctrl+alt+del,
hit esc, hit pretty much any key combination I can think of, even hit the
power button, but the only thing I can do is hold the power button until it
shuts down. The most recent time it happened I think the only programs I had
open were Internet Explorer, Notepad, FreeCell, and Adobe Reader within
Internet Explorer!

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista may
become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

This is for XP:
A shutdown troubleshooter http://aumha.org/a/shtdwnxp.htm

 

[Morgan Wick]

I'll try one idea there, and do some experimenting first to see if I want to
try some other things, but most of that stuff appears to be for shutting
down, not standby or hibernate.