Comments on: Windows XP Standby and Hibernate Problems Solved (finally … I hope)

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:48:44 +0000

Hi,

I just came upon a different problem. We have a media pc to play blu ray and standard dvds running xp and in the last two weeks after years of no problems shortly after turning the pc on, but never more than a minute or two it crashes saying “preparing to go into standby”… any ideas on what may be causing this problem. Once again just using it as a media pc to watch tv or play dvds and no internet.

Thanks,

Colin

By: Yuri

Yuri — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:30:34 +0000

My Gateway laptop with XP stopped going to stand by either plugged in or running on batteries, although it did go to stand by with when I closed the lid. So hardware was not the issue. I read on of the posts above and downloaded Glary Utilities, ran it, nothing happened. Installed and ran nCleaner. It removed other stuff which Glary did not, but the same story. Then I rebooted the laptop and it started working fine. So definitely one of the programs or both of them solved the problem, at least for me. Note: I unchecked all extras both of these programs offer during installation.

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:28:16 +0000

Thank you very much.

By: Mark W.

Mark W. — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:18:02 +0000

I have an HP Pavilion A556X – just acquired second hand. I updated all the Windows updates and drivers and had this problem of not being able to go into standby mode. I got a message saying my keyboard driver was the culprit. As it turns out, it was Adobe Type Manager (possibly conflicting with the keyboard driver) since standby now works after uninstalling ATM and rebooting the computer. I now see it mentioned as the solution in comment #56 so I just wanted to second that solution.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:28:44 +0000

My problem is that standby seems to be working fine – except that the monitor turnoff never turns off the monitor. Any ideas?

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:08:38 +0000

Tom, I have a Dell Dimension E510 with XP Media, with Windows auto update. I have only switched my anti-virus from Avast to AVG in the last few months.

The Standby and Hibernation were working fine until about 2 weeks ago. One day, Standby stopped working – would not activate – so I went into Power Mgmt and selected hibernation and it worked fine for a few days. Then it stopped. I went back to Power Mgmt and selected another time interval for Standby and it worked fine for a few days. Now, regardless of the time interval or whether Standby or Hibernation, is not activated.

I looked at the SartUp programs and do not see anything different or not necessary there. Assuming that there is a software not allowing it to be activated, how can I check it out. I would appreciate your help on this, to avoid having the pc on when not in use.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:38:16 +0000

Tom, this is a super post, and while I have not read all of the comments, I have gotten a huge amount out of the reading. What I would love to hear from you is some comments related to using an SSD instead of the standard HD. I have both running on my system, and there are various tweaks that give you an optimization, one of which is to use a RAM drive for temp files. That, plus the SSD drive now give me a super fast startup of both the system and major programs. I keep most data files on the regular drive and most programs & the OS on the SSD. While I know that the RAM drive precludes hibernate, I am working now on at least going into standby to keep down power consumption. I am sure your input and additional advice will help me get to a solution.

Again, as noted by others, thanks for your hero status on this worthy cause to help us lower our carbon footprint!

Dick

By: Maxis

Maxis — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:10:35 +0000

I have to report that my XP goes nicely in hibernation mode ONCE after a fresh system start. (Referring to jqs.exe disabling).

=> Fresh Start #1 => Hibernation after X min
=> Start #2 => NO hibernation

Just wondering what is different after hibernation.. There is something that is nagging the system not to sleep. Argh..!

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:24:56 +0000

Disabling jqs.exe worked for me! Thanks

By: Maxis

Maxis — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:06:16 +0000

THANKS dmast!

It really worked!