OK, when digging around in my power options, under Multimedia settings, I
found that when sharing media (which I have enabled), the plugged in setting
was set to "prevent idling to sleep." Sounds like this could be my problem.
I changed it to "allow the computer to sleep" and we'll see what happens.
The original setting was the default choice, so anyone who didn't dig this
far in, but did enable media sharing, might want to look at this. I don't
know if it will fix my problem or not, but anyone who wants to access my
media has access to my notebook enough to zip their finger across the
touchpad to access the music, pictures, etc (9x out of 10=my kids).

Kristy

"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok guys, I have figured something out. Try going to your Task Scheduler.
> As
> soon as you open it up, do a couple of errors pop up along the lines of
> "Defrag Scheduler is corrupted or tampered with"? I was also getting one
> stating that "Task Reminders - (Your User Name) is corrupted. User name
> not
> found". Here is my theory: Some tasks are corrupted and keep trying to
> run,
> keeping the computer awake.
>
> I did two things, and I don't know which fixed it. First off, a while
> back
> I changed the name of my computer from e1505 to Laptop. That definitely
> screwed up the Task Reminders task with Windows Calendar for some reason.
> I
> could find no way to update the computer name in Windows Calendar so it
> knows
> that my user name is in fact valid so I just changed the computer name
> back.
> As soon as I did that it fixed that error.
>
> Next I reinstalled Vista. That managed to fix my defrag scheduled task
> corruption and now the computer sleeps just fine. If you pop in the Vista
> disk, reinstall, and just choose to keep all programs and settings it
> seems
> to work just like XP's repair function. I didn't lose a document or
> program,
> and even my desktop remained the same.
>
> If you changed the name of you computer at any point, try changing it
> back.
> If that doesn't fix things, try the Vista reinstall. It worked for me.
>
> Rich
>
> "Kcpirana" wrote:
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>> 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
>> news:47B905A7-0E93-4077-9CF5-2BEA82C495E5@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > 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:
>> >
>> >> 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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