Comments on: Standby and Resume- not just a concept anymore

By: jk

jk — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:04:00 +0000

Maryam, as long as you keep it charged you should have no problem keeing the laptop in Standby mode. I rarely shut my laptops down.

By: Maryam Atighechi

Maryam Atighechi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:42:07 +0000

Can someone please help me!!! I’m taking the California bar exam in a week and my computer freezes at start up mode on the Sony Viao page. Can I constantly keep my laptop on standby until the exam is over? It is possible to keep a laptop in standby mode for over a week constantly, I’ll keep it charged throughout as well.
Thanks.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:13:25 +0000

I can’t get my system out of stanby, by pressing the power button on my Dell D-600. Is there something I need to press? Please help.

By: jónas

jónas — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:15:10 +0000

Can somebody help me with my STANDBY problems?

Every time, after I’ve been to the internet, my computer doesn’t want to stay in STANDBY mode. That is: it always restarts right away.

But: if I dont go to the internet it goes normally to standby.

What could be the problem?

By: jónas

jónas — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:41:14 +0000

Hello,

now suddenly my computer, xp, doesn’t want to stay in standby. it just stays there for a few seconds and then awakes again.

what I have recently done is, I think, to download 3 antispy programs.

get skype

and, incidentally, got service pack 2

Can somebody help me please?

By: DJT

DJT — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:18:54 +0000

Something for Kevin C. Tofel:

I recently had a problem with our Windows XP Home Edition pc. My wife was having a problem putting her laptop in stand by mode. It seems the main cause was because her pc wasn’t shutting down properly either.
The fix was using the registry. Start,Run, regedit
HKey_Local_Machine/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/Current Version/Winlogon Double Click Winlogon and look for a key called PowerDownAfterShutdown Modify that key to be 1 instead of a 0.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:01:27 +0000

“Ever since upgrading to XP SP2 on my Inspiron 8100 I’ve have problems coming out of stand by mode.”

I have had exactly the same problem with my Inspiron 8200 since I installed xp sp2. I eventually found the source of the problem. sp2 has a utility called Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Microsoft explains what this does here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352

You need to disable this or find out what program is conflicting with DEP. My setting was the default ‘Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only’. To see the setting: Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Data Execution Protection.

I decided to disable DEP altogether. I’m now exposed to more risk until Microsoft release a service pack to resolve the problem.

To turn it off you have to go into Boot.ini in the root of your C: and put AlwaysOff as the setting for /NoExecute:

/NoExecute=AlwaysOff

Hope this helps. It worked for me. But I would look out for a patch to resolve this so that you can revert back to having DEP’s added protection.

I found a hotfix that I think would solve the problem… but I would rather wait for a properly tested service pack.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889673

If you decide to install the hotfix please let me know how it went. If you come across a service pack please also let me know as I dont use windows update.

Cheers,

Ben

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:24:54 +0000

Hey there,

I think stand by and hibernation are great! I use stand by when i need to leave my laptop for 10 mins or more, and hibernation when changing the battery in my laptop.

Just recently (after a fresh install of xp sp2) i’ve noticed that my laptop’s taking a long time to resume from stand by. Whereas it’s supposed to take about 5 seconds, it now takes way over 12 seconds. I know this seems pathetic, but it’s irritating!

Thanks for any help!!

~Simon

By: Anish

Anish — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:44:20 +0000

I have hp laptop and when it comes out of standby mode the minimization and maximization of windows gets slower than usual. If I shutdown and restart the computer it becomes fine. I contacted the hp customer support too but they could not help me either. Its very frustrating.

By: Hans Frick

Hans Frick — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:46:45 +0000

I have a Gateway 450 and I always used suspend and resume without any problems, but recently I installed service pack 2 for windows XP and since that time my suspend and resume does not work anymore. When I want to turn the computer back on it just freezes, the screen stays black and nothing happens anymore, then I need to reboot. So far I have not found any info on what is causing the problem, but it is clearly associated with service pack 2.