Comments on: Keyboard Ninja: Enter Vista Sleep Mode with 3 Keystrokes

By: sasderwn

sasderwn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:11:19 +0000

Hello World

By: David Bangs

David Bangs — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:19:08 +0000

These steps don’t work to shut down my laptop because it is attached to a docking station.

Docking a laptop causes an “U_ndock” commmand to appear at the top of the menu. The menu now has TWO commands with the shortcut U.

Instead of invoking shutdown, the U key merely toggles between the U_ndock and Shu_tdown menu items. Pressing u twice then Enter will invoke shutdown!

How *could* they be so sloppy as to assign the same accelerator to two commands on the same menu?

By: Student

Student — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:52:45 +0000

I’ve got a Logitech keyboard with advanced keys, such as “mail”, “web”, “media”, etc. I’d like to assing sleep action to one of them. How can I do that? Thanks!

By: Planet Lowyat

Planet Lowyat — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:36:02 +0000

Have you tried this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....ows-vista/ ?

By: Jos Muris

Jos Muris — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:29:29 +0000

Vista. Fine. When I try to put it to sleep, no matter in which way, “it” sleeps for 1 whole second and it wakes up all by itselves…

It happens on my desktop as well as my notebook.

What do I do wrong?

By: John Yugin

John Yugin — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:15:56 +0000

My Microsoft 6000 keyboard does not have a Sleep button. I would like o configure one of the ‘Favorites’ keys to invoke Sleep. What command do I assign to a favorites key to achieve this?
Thanks.

By: Porty

Porty — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:26:22 +0000

I’ve just been trying to use those Winkey shortcuts and couldn’t figure out why they won’t work.

It’s because I always config XP and Vista to use the Classic start menu.

If anyone has other suggestions for Vista shutdown\restart\sleep shortcuts, that’ll work with this config, I’d love to hear about them

Cheers

By: sasha

sasha — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:27:01 +0000

by using shortcut to rundll.exe with system dll you can do the same. But: you can place shortcut on desktop or taskbar; assign ANY key sequence you like to shortcut on desktop. You still need to be aware of mixing keyboard shortcuts.
Sasha

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:54:16 +0000

Function+Escape on my laptop puts my computer in sleep mode, and all of my desktop keyboards have sleep buttons that make doing this fast. Nice tip though.