You did not say if it is a laptop or desktop. In either go to The
Start/Control Panel and set to Classic View on the left. Then click the
Power icon and look at the various options for settings and power saving
there.

If a Laptop it probably has A hibernation key on it so read the manual for
guidence.

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Ian

"Curt Peterson" <CurtPeterson@att.net> wrote in message
news:Rf-dneQXzfTZ6D3bnZ2dnUVZ_sejnZ2d@comcast.com...[color=blue]
>I am trying to help a family member that just got a new computer with
>Vista. The computer goes to sleep fine, but once they try to wake it and
>access a program... it flashes the blue screen of death and then reboots.
>Looking around the web and MS KB articles, I see lots of talks about of all
>sorts of variations to this problem, but no solutions. Do we need to wait
>for a patch for MS or is there something we can do... Help!
>
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