RE: standby when lid is closed won't work

From: Byte (Byte_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/20/04


Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:22:01 -0700

In many cases with this problem, disabling your screensaver will solve this
problem.

"Hillary" wrote:

> I upgraded to xp from 98SE. It's been working for
> years. All of sudden when I close the lid nothing
> happens. It should go into standby.
>
> When looking at power options menu the advanced tab DOES
> NOT have an option for me to choose for the system to go
> into standby.
>
> I looked at another computer that i upgraded and it
> doesn't have that choice either.
>
> I can't figure out where to go to make this work again.
>



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