Go to Advance Power Settings.

Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep.

Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Never"

Under USB settings select "Disable"

Under Multimedia select "Allow ....."

"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.
> --
> Mark[/color]