Problems with Sleep...

[Guest]

I've set up my laptop to sleep automatically when the lid is closed.
But occasionally, (probably due to the loose battery in my Dell 1420),
while starting up, I get the "Windows was not shut down properly..." message
at booting with some options including
"Start windows normally", which is selected by default.

As per my knowledge, if a Windows vista PC encounters a power failure during
"sleep", it will resume as if it resumes from a hibernate session. But this
never happens to me. It behaves the same way as it did in XP... (The standby
feature of XP). That's sleep behaves like standby and not the way it's
expected to behave. what could be the reason? Anyone else facing a similar or
the same problem?

 

[Michael Walraven]

Check to make sure you have your power option set to enable 'allow hybrid
sleep'. While Vista defaults to this being enabled perhaps it got turned off
at some point.

There have been several threads here discussing the 'correct' use of
sleep/hibernate in a laptop. My OPINION is that a laptop running on battery
should be set to hibernate rather than sleep. My rational has been that the
deep discharge of the battery on the way to hibernate is a bad thing for
battery life. That is not a universally held opinion however.

Michael