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(Solved) - how to make SLEEP shortcut

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sugitts
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I have shortcuts to REBOOT,SHUTDOWN & HIBERNATE in win7 home
can someone please tell me how to make shortcut to SLEEP

THANKS

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ispalten
ispalten
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Don't know, but THIS might work? Hibernate if you want that can be done via SHUTDOWN.EXE.

This command, "rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0", will put you into a hybrid Sleep, takes longer to wake up, but uses less power.

Irv S.

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ProstheticHead
ProstheticHead
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Nircmd.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

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sugitts
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thanks for the post, its a very interesting link but they are not recommending it for win7 as stated below

This utility can work in all 32-bit Windows operating systems: Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. However, some of NirCmd commands works only on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

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ProstheticHead
ProstheticHead
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The SLEEP shortcut works perfectly well with my Windows 7 x64 installation.

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sugitts
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ok I'll give it a try
thanks

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Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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And don't worry.It's not gonna kill your system. Nirsoft are the good guys :)

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ReadandShare
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Thanks to the recommendation on this forum, I too use Nircmd and have 'sleep', 'hibernate' and 'restart' shortcuts on my taskbar.

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