Hibernate sometimes gets turned off in Vista by some clean up programs. If hibernate is turned off on the shut down menu, you will need to re-enable it. If you don't it will never work with any keystrokes. If you know how to open a black administrator cmd window, you can enable it by typing in; powercfg -h on Some laptops have special key presses to enter sleep and hibernate... Is this a laptop ? If so what is the make and model. Maybe someone will find and read your manual.

Compatibility Compatibility issues with websites Website compatibility Windows Internet Explorer 8 improves browser interoperability and advances the Web by delivering a better implementation of web standards. Although this is a move in the right direction, you might encounter compatibility issues with some sites that still rely on the behavior of earlier versions of Internet Explorer. Common symptoms of site compatibility problems are out-of-place menus, images, or text. Would this be the problem I was having? I keep getting the error message Sorry but IE has encountered a problem and needs to shut down,sorry,bla,bla. and had to shut down IE and start over. It did not shut down whole computer and have to re boot but just IE. I uninstalled IE8 and went back to IE7 and all is well.Thanks

It's a little complex because two or more controlling software's might be trying to control the machine's behavior. First educate yourself about what brings it out of sleep mode. I know that the modem can (by a phone call coming in the comptuer can be woken up so as to take the call be it a fax or internet) Since dialup is dead to most people know that the network card can work the same way. So turn off the 'wake upon lan" or similar setting that means this: When the LAN (network card) gets a request to transfer data it wakes up the computer. You can shut this off but where? It can be set in many places. The bios might have a setting. Windows might have a setting for it. And any software for the network card itself could have a setting. (This is often part of the Windows setting section) Go poke and search these bits first. Without knowing the network and modem cards are not going to wake up the computer you are wasting time. Verify they aren't at fault first. I'll check back in a few days. Andre

Yes, I do know you're not suppose to shut computer down with the power button but is was an all else failed situation and even that didn't work. Step two for me was to unplug the thing to shut it down and that's probably a terrible thing to do. But eventually it did start back up after several scary seconds. I just hope I don't have that problem again but it does seem to be an issue for some with windows 7.