If I set it to 2 minutes or 1 hours it does not matter.

It is a brand new Vista based PC. Infact I have 4 of them!

"Terry" wrote:
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> On 4/12/2007 12:00 PM On a whim, Paul pounded out on the keyboard
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> > Vista will not go to sleep automatically. The screen turn dark but machine
> > will not sleeep. Even after a clean re-start.
> >
> > If I manually press the sleep button on the keyboard it works fine.
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> > Why will it not auto-sleep[/color]
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> You need a bigger sledge hammer ;-)
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> Check the power settings to verify the length of time before sleep is to
> occur. Is this an upgraded computer or a new computer? Possibly legacy
> hardware is preventing it also.
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