Windows Classic Menu

[Robin Bignall]

In an earlier thread up-group I mentioned that when I tried to select
'sleep' or 'hibernate' in my brand-new installation of Win7U, the system
would sleep or hibernate for just a few seconds before restarting,
despite everything that could restart it being turned off in BIOS.
Now, after installing Classic Menu and playing with the settings a
little, sleep and hibernate both work as they should. Magic.

 

[R.H. Breener]

In an earlier thread up-group I mentioned that when I tried to select
'sleep' or 'hibernate' in my brand-new installation of Win7U, the system
would sleep or hibernate for just a few seconds before restarting,
despite everything that could restart it being turned off in BIOS.
Now, after installing Classic Menu and playing with the settings a
little, sleep and hibernate both work as they should. Magic.
--
Robin Bignall
Herts, England


You're not the only one with Sleep problems on W-7. Can you tell me more
about installing Classic Menu and how you got Sleep to work?

Thanks

 

[Robin Bignall]

You're not the only one with Sleep problems on W-7. Can you tell me more
about installing Classic Menu and how you got Sleep to work?

I just downloaded classic shell from here
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
and it worked, or appeared to.

I may have spoken too soon, though. I tried both sleep and hibernate,
and watched each for five minutes, and the system didn't restart. But,
after hibernating again and going away to have my dinner, I found that
it had restarted again. It's not stable.

 

[Bob I]

I just downloaded classic shell from here
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
and it worked, or appeared to.

I may have spoken too soon, though. I tried both sleep and hibernate,
and watched each for five minutes, and the system didn't restart. But,
after hibernating again and going away to have my dinner, I found that
it had restarted again. It's not stable.

Is the mouse waking it up?

 

[Joe Morris]

I may have spoken too soon, though. I tried both
sleep and hibernate, and watched each for five
minutes, and the system didn't restart. But,
after hibernating again and going away to have my
dinner, I found that it had restarted again.
It's not stable.

Have you checked for an updated BIOS? Many years ago (~2000) I ran into a
very similar problems with some enterprise-level HP laptops. Turned out
that the BIOS was buggy, and once the system had shut down a deadman timer
that shouldn't have been running expired and brought power back up.

Joe

 

[R.H. Breener]

You're not the only one with Sleep problems on W-7. Can you tell me more
about installing Classic Menu and how you got Sleep to work?

I just downloaded classic shell from here
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
and it worked, or appeared to.

I may have spoken too soon, though. I tried both sleep and hibernate,
and watched each for five minutes, and the system didn't restart. But,
after hibernating again and going away to have my dinner, I found that
it had restarted again. It's not stable.
--
Robin Bignall
Herts, England


Thanks, I already have that and it didn't help. Sleep Mode worked at first.
I made no changes to the PC and one day it no longer worked.

 

[Good Guy]

I just downloaded classic shell from here
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
and it worked, or appeared to.

Have you tried this Official Microsoft link to change your view?

<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Change-Windows-to-Classic-view>

G/L

 

[mechanic]

Have you tried this Official Microsoft link to change your view?

<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Change-Windows-to-Classic-view>

G/L

Great link - thanks!

 

[Robin Bignall]

Is the mouse waking it up?

Why should it? It's not being moved.

 

[Robin Bignall]

Have you checked for an updated BIOS? Many years ago (~2000) I ran intoa
very similar problems with some enterprise-level HP laptops. Turned out
that the BIOS was buggy, and once the system had shut down a deadman timer
that shouldn't have been running expired and brought power back up.

I have the latest, but would not know if such a timer exists. It's a
Gigabyte board.

 

[R.H. Breener]

Have you tried this Official Microsoft link to change your view?

<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Change-Windows-to-Classic-view>

Classic View works fine. Sleep Mode no longer works.

 

[BillW50]

Why should it? It's not being moved.

Mice are digital. Being so, they use digital counters. And a mouse can
be positioned right at the edge of tripping the counter another click.
This can happen just once, or sit there and repeatably toggle a digital
bit back and forth. Thus the mouse is showing movement when there is none.

Also vibration can cause the mouse to report movement as well. Although
in this case, it really is being moved. Even sound can cause the mouse
to report movement.

To eliminate the possibly of this being the problem, just move the mouse
while it is in standby or hibernating. If the computer wakes up, then
that is probably it.

I have eight of these Gateway M465 machines. The ones with XP installed,
won't wake up moving the mouse. But the Windows 7 ones, wake up moving
the mouse. I have a mouse with a switch on it. So I just flip the switch
off and now it won't wake up.

These Gateway M465 also does something that I never saw with another
computer. That is if they wake up or you turn it on. And then do
nothing, it will go back to sleep in about 5 minutes. Although if you
just move the mouse or touch a key, it will stay on 24/7 even if you
don't touch anything after the first time.

I also use some of my Gateway M465 to record TV programs. I just set the
schedule and put it to sleep. And it wakes up just before the recording
starts and records the program. And if I have it set to, it will go back
to sleep again after it is done. And that 5 minute sleep thing never
kicks in.