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Mark Warner wrote:
John Corliss wrote:
My friend's laptop will only go to Stand By or Hibernate. Is there a
program that will add the capability to completely shut down or which
will cause the computer to be shut down when the lid is shut?
In Control Panel> Power Options> Advanced, I have Stand By and Hibernate
as the only options for closing the lid.
However, under the Hibernate tab it reads
"When your computer hibernates, it stores whatever it has in memory on
your hard disk and then shuts down. When your computer comes out of
hibernation, it returns to its previous state."
If "shuts down" really means shuts down and power off, then you've got
what you want. Of course, you'll be back where you started when you
power back up. I just tried it, and that's how it works on this old Dell
-- closing the lid shuts it down completely (nothing running, no lights,
etc.), and opening the lid brings it right back up to where it was
before. However, in my case, I lose my wireless connection (PCMCIA nic
card doesn't come back up); a full reboot restores it.
Thanks, but the problem is that neither his Hibernation nor his Stand By
modes work properly as described here by a guy named Jim Wulf:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/130637-preparing-stand.html
Sorry if this is already known. Me, I haven't messed with this stuff at
all on the rare occasions I boot the old laptop to XP. I'm usually happy
just to shut the thing down normally.
Yeah, I don't even use a laptop. Well, not entirely true... I was given
an ancient Pentium 133 running Windows 98SE that rightfully should be
recycled, but I never use it.
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