Suspend and hibernate no longer available on Inspiron 8600 running XP Home

I'm running XP Home. Over the weekend my Inspiron 8600 lost the options to
suspend and hiberate. I tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers and using
system restore to bring it back to Wednesday (I know it was working
Thursday - suspending is something I do many times a day when I'm out with
clients). Neither had any effect.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this was using the
webcam with Yahoo Messenger on Saturday. The webcam was installed before,
but this was the first time I used it for a long period. Is there a way to
remove the webcam software completely from the system?

No other hardware has been installed on this machine recently.

Is there a way to diagnose the lack of suspend/hibernate? How does Windows
figure this out? (I'll take anything here, even sample code.)

- James

"News" wrote in message
news:1075661905.244838@yasure...
I'm running XP Home. Over the weekend my Inspiron 8600 lost the options
to
suspend and hiberate. I tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers and using
system restore to bring it back to Wednesday (I know it was working
Thursday - suspending is something I do many times a day when I'm out with
clients). Neither had any effect.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this was using the
webcam with Yahoo Messenger on Saturday. The webcam was installed before,
but this was the first time I used it for a long period. Is there a way
to
remove the webcam software completely from the system?

No other hardware has been installed on this machine recently.

Is there a way to diagnose the lack of suspend/hibernate? How does
Windows
figure this out? (I'll take anything here, even sample code.)

- James





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Use system restore!
Its on your help and support menu...

He said he tried that.....

"Dick Osborne®" wrote in message
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"News" wrote in message
news:1075661905.244838@yasure...
I'm running XP Home. Over the weekend my Inspiron 8600 lost the options
to
suspend and hiberate. I tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers and using
system restore to bring it back to Wednesday (I know it was working
Thursday - suspending is something I do many times a day when I'm out
with
clients). Neither had any effect.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this was using the
webcam with Yahoo Messenger on Saturday. The webcam was installed
before,
but this was the first time I used it for a long period. Is there a way
to
remove the webcam software completely from the system?

No other hardware has been installed on this machine recently.

Is there a way to diagnose the lack of suspend/hibernate? How does
Windows
figure this out? (I'll take anything here, even sample code.)

- James





*********************
Use system restore!
Its on your help and support menu...

What is your setting in the Control Panel Power Options System Standby?

System Standby?
"News" wrote in message
news:1075661905.244838@yasure...
I'm running XP Home. Over the weekend my Inspiron 8600 lost the options
to
suspend and hiberate. I tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers and using
system restore to bring it back to Wednesday (I know it was working
Thursday - suspending is something I do many times a day when I'm out with
clients). Neither had any effect.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this was using the
webcam with Yahoo Messenger on Saturday. The webcam was installed before,
but this was the first time I used it for a long period. Is there a way
to
remove the webcam software completely from the system?

No other hardware has been installed on this machine recently.

Is there a way to diagnose the lack of suspend/hibernate? How does
Windows
figure this out? (I'll take anything here, even sample code.)

- James

Power options doesn't have anything called "system standby" as far as I can
see. I suspect that's related - there's something in the system, somewhere,
that says "James has been bad - show him no interesting power management
features anywhere" and I just need to find out why.

- James

"WSZsr" wrote in message
om...
What is your setting in the Control Panel Power Options System
Standby?

I may have needed a comma between the bit about reinstalling the nvidia
drivers and using system restore. I did try restore, and it had no effect.

I'm going to try a few more restore points and see if that makes a
difference.

- James

"Dick Osborne®" wrote in message
...

*********************
Use system restore!
Its on your help and support menu...

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:52:04 -0800, "James Moore"
wrote:

Power options doesn't have anything called "system standby" as far as I can
see. I suspect that's related - there's something in the system, somewhere,
that says "James has been bad - show him no interesting power management
features anywhere" and I just need to find out why.

By any chance did you mess with the System BIOS settings??? I think
on my PII 400 with Win98, I once diabled Power Management, and I loss
some options.

You know what to do: shdb at slip dot net

News wrote:
I'm running XP Home. Over the weekend my Inspiron 8600 lost the
options to suspend and hiberate. I tried reinstalling the nvidia
drivers and using system restore to bring it back to Wednesday (I
know it was working Thursday - suspending is something I do many
times a day when I'm out with clients). Neither had any effect.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this was using
the webcam with Yahoo Messenger on Saturday. The webcam was
installed before, but this was the first time I used it for a long
period. Is there a way to remove the webcam software completely from
the system?

No other hardware has been installed on this machine recently.

Is there a way to diagnose the lack of suspend/hibernate? How does
Windows figure this out? (I'll take anything here, even sample code.)

- James



Go to Microsoft product support and search the KB for the words
"suspend" or "hybernate" and see what pops up. Kelly's corner might
have a key also www.kellyscorner.com.

To remove the webcam: connect the camera to your computer. From Device
Manager, select the View menu and toggle View Hidden Devices. Remove
all instances of the camera. From Scanners and Cameras, do the same.
From Add/Remove programs, remove the camera software and any TWAIN
installed with it. Shutdown and disconnect the camera. Reboot. The
camera should be gone.

Q