The thing about sleep mode that makes it a poor substitute for hibernation for me is that if the keyboard or mouse is bumped, the computer comes on. That is OK if I am going to use it again soon. Now hibernation is an option in the shut-down drop down menu.
I did still want to use sleep mode if the time between uses is short,though. But I seem to have the problem that when it comes out of sleep mode, it can't access the harddrive.
Hiya Al. I was keeping a sharp eye on it this morning when I woke it up. I was relieved that it worked this time.
Colin, that was one thing that had made me leery about the power schemes in Vista as well. The old ones in XP and earlier were good and it seemed that the hybridization was losing options without much if any benefit over the two old ways. I had actually gone into the power settings and had it bring back both and have them available for use. Sleep has qualities that I like just as they originally were like the old hibernation does.
