Windows Vista Disappearing hibernate function

Vista Home premium SP1 - it was there, now it's gone - what?

Start / hibernate

I have tried powercfg.exe /h on from Command - nothing.

I tried restoring back to 14th Jan, when it did work - nothing.

I have tried Vista SP1 support from Microsoft - total waste of time.

Any ideas?

Clue : sometimes it shuts down completely if I do a Start / sleep

 

Have you tried turning it off and back on?

That is, powercfg.exe -h off and powercfg.exe -h on. Note minus sign not slash!

 

Yeah - tried that, and you can use / or - (both work (or not), as the case may be)

The strange thing is, Toshiba have a Function key utility, which includes a hibernate on F4. As well as Fn + F4 it has a drop down key pad. Sometimes this disappears, but when it's there and after doing a powercfg.exe, the hibernate F4 function works?

It doesn't always shut down correctly, - evidenced by black screen message on restart - 'Failed to shut down, could not communicate . . . '. Then it's a choice of Safe start or normal.

The hibernate function has not appeared in the Start / hibernate menu since installing SP1. This is why I contacted MS Support, which was a BIG mistake.

After signing on to their Easy access support system, I spent 2 afternoons, both following their instructions, PLUS allowing them access to my machine, and progressed absolutely zilch.

IN FACT! - I spent a further two days sorting out the problems they caused!

They just get access to your machine and firstly delete everything, cookies, history, temp folders, downloads.

The only advantage gained is more disk space.

They remove all startup programs and leave you like that - No virus scanner, no firewall - nothing! - Very un-professional and NOT to be recommended!

Since they had access - I cannot reliably do a re-start. Invariably it just shuts down.

In fact the CLUE in the first post should have read Start / Re-start and not sleep (senior moment).

I dealt with FOUR different operatives and they all admitted that Vista SP1 has proved pretty disastrous in many respects!

Lots of incompatibilities with not just software, but many hardware drivers.

see: http://tinyurl.com/bxkjl5

Even my virus scanner is reporting vulnerabilities with Vista - but when I check with MS, they say I am fully patched and good to go.

Incidentally, before anyone thinks of it, I have also been on to the Toshiba site, to see if there is anything to download, and guess what - "Your computer is fully up to date "

Does anyone know anymore? - or is the Bill Gates foundation planning to receive a Nobel prize for taking over the world as well!

P.S - It is a Laptop (Tosh A215 Satellite with AMD Turion 64x2, 4 Gb Ram, ATI Radeon, Realtek wifi, running Vista Home Premium SP1)

 

Will this work I wonder?

I just found this;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929658

Looks promising, I will try it and report back

 

Well that didn't work either - how shite can this system get?