Go Back to Sleep after Wake

My Vista Home Premium/x86/SP2 laptop is set up to sleep when the lid is
closed That works. It is also set to sleep after 25 minutes of inactivity.
That works. When it wakes up for scheduled tasks such as software updates,
even though the lid is closed, the laptop does not go back to sleep, network
stays active, etc. One result is a hot laptop and lots of fan time. Is
there a way to make sure it goes back to sleep?

Anybody home?

"rak" <rakess@charter.net> wrote in message
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> My Vista Home Premium/x86/SP2 laptop is set up to sleep when the lid is
> closed That works. It is also set to sleep after 25 minutes of
> inactivity. That works. When it wakes up for scheduled tasks such as
> software updates, even though the lid is closed, the laptop does not go
> back to sleep, network stays active, etc. One result is a hot laptop and
> lots of fan time. Is there a way to make sure it goes back to sleep?

"rak" <rakess@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Anybody home?
>
> "rak" <rakess@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:WVI4m.13154$8P7.12886@newsfe21.iad...
>> My Vista Home Premium/x86/SP2 laptop is set up to sleep when the lid is
>> closed That works. It is also set to sleep after 25 minutes of
>> inactivity. That works. When it wakes up for scheduled tasks such as
>> software updates, even though the lid is closed, the laptop does not go
>> back to sleep, network stays active, etc. One result is a hot laptop and
>> lots of fan time. Is there a way to make sure it goes back to sleep?
>



You could make doubly sure of its observing its bedtime, by scheduling a
later task to actively put it to sleep eg scheduling the command

shutdown /h

would hibernate it. You can use this tool to schedule a sleep

PsShutdown v2.52
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897541.aspx

psshutdown -d

--
Jon

That does it. Jon, thanks for your help.

"Jon" <Email_Address@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote in message
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> "rak" <rakess@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:k9n5m.22944$Kn1.19607@newsfe09.iad...
>> Anybody home?
>>
>> "rak" <rakess@charter.net> wrote in message
>> news:WVI4m.13154$8P7.12886@newsfe21.iad...
>>> My Vista Home Premium/x86/SP2 laptop is set up to sleep when the lid is
>>> closed That works. It is also set to sleep after 25 minutes of
>>> inactivity. That works. When it wakes up for scheduled tasks such as
>>> software updates, even though the lid is closed, the laptop does not go
>>> back to sleep, network stays active, etc. One result is a hot laptop
>>> and lots of fan time. Is there a way to make sure it goes back to
>>> sleep?
>>
>
>
>
> You could make doubly sure of its observing its bedtime, by scheduling a
> later task to actively put it to sleep eg scheduling the command
>
> shutdown /h
>
> would hibernate it. You can use this tool to schedule a sleep
>
> PsShutdown v2.52
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897541.aspx
>
> psshutdown -d
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>