Click the Start orb and look for the lock icon at the bottom of the menu,
right. There is an arrow icon next to that to put the system to 'standby',
also called 'sleep'

Control Panel/Power Options has a dropbox to choose 'sleep' and the time to
wait till it happens.

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"mark j cornelius" <markjcornelius@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F6E8B7F7-95AB-4A0A-8408-5E43BA619B35@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> how do I get my vista home premimum system to automatically go to the
> standby
> mode after a certian amount of time to where it shuts down (no fans or
> hard
> drives running) so that when I start it back up it starts up faster and
> resumes where I left off.
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> Mark[/color]