Sleep button is shaded on. The system is XP home.
Impossible to put my computer into sleep mode. Any suggestions?
If your buttons Stand By and Hibernate in the menu or shut down the computer are missing, gray out or inactive:
The options in the menu already worked shut down correctly before?
Have you recently installed, reinstalled, updated or repair your Windows XP?
Has anything on your system that has nothing to with your video display or monitor?
What do you think has happened since the last time the options in the menu to stop the computer was working normally?
If the buttons used to work and if you have just installed Windows, reinstalled Windows, doing a repair installation, used a system restore point (or other things in that sense), you will probably need to update your video drivers as well to restore the function of the buttons.
If you have accepted the Microsoft video hardware driver updates (never a good idea), they can send you bad drivers.
If the video drivers on your system are not correct, these buttons often will not work.
Usually and easy to check and correct, is the video drivers for your system that must be downloaded to your global manufacturers Web site. Download the correct (recent) video drivers for your graphics card, install the correct video drivers, reboot your system, and then test.
If you can not know how to check if your video drivers are correct, may not know how to get to the World Wide Web of manufacturers or can not know what to do then, maybe we can look at it for you if you provide more information.
What is your system brand and model?
If you are not sure what you have, that:
Click Start, run and enter in the box:
Msinfo32
Click OK, and when the system info summary appears, click Edit, select all, copy and paste then return here.
For information about video drivers, expand components, click view, click on edit, select all, copy and then paste the information here.
There will be some personal information (such as the user name and the name of the system), and anything that turns information private for you, simply delete it.
This minimize back Q & A and eliminate guesswork, trying things and assumptions.
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