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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Can't Sleep - Try this..


Since I loaded Vista, I have not been able to get my laptop to sleep. It worked fine under XP but would immediately come back. The answer that I found is to turn off the Wake On Lan feature of the network card. Apparently, this is now turned on by default. Here are the steps that I followed to get it to work.

  • Right click on Network and bring up properties OR select Control Panel and then Network and Sharing Center

  • Select Manage Network Connections







  • Double-Click on the Ethernet Card to bring up Propertied





  • Select Properties and OK the permissions





  • Select Configure





  • Select Advanced





  • Select Wake Up Capabilities and then NONE on dropdown list on the right





  • Select OK and then you should be able to sleep.


    • This worked for me on my Dell Inspiron 9300. Hopefully it will work for you too.

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