I, too, have the same problem. I have the computer in Balanced power mode
and am running Vista Home Premium. I set it to sleep after an hour and this
morning, it was still on! Monitor shut off, as it was supposed to, but it
never went to sleep. Anyone have a fix for this?

Kristy

"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Same exact problem here except on a Dell laptop. In fact, if I have it in
> High Performance, my computer won't even sleep if I hit the button or
> close
> the lid.
>
> Coincidentally, I have a few corrupted tasks in task scheduler that I
> can't
> get rid of either. One was Scheduled Defrag, which I suspect is trying to
> run and won't allow my computer to sleep. This is just a guess, because I
> can't figure it out and it's really getting frustrating.
>
> Rich
>
> "mj" wrote:
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>> Sleep works great when I initiate, but it won't drop into sleep
>> after an hour on it's own. The monitor will turn off after 20
>> minutes, however. I am using a desktop PC with the balanced power
>> plan.
>>
>> thanks
>>
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