Vista Sleep Mode Setting Questions

[spencer22l]

I've just installed Vista newly

After installing this and that, I transferred my movies from external hdd
to vista. It was gonna take a while so I left the house for some hour.

When I was back my computer was in sleep mode, (which I never used in XP)
and I pressed this and that button and some wriggles of mouse and clicks and even pressed my power button. Soon whichever did the trick, my screen went from black to Resuming... ( or something similar)

But nothing else happened so I used my reset button on my case to
force it to restart and got it back working.

Here are some questions :

1. During Sleep Mode, will my downloads work? Will torrents or just direct downloads from a website continue to download while in sleep mode?

2. How do I properly wake it up from sleep? I've set it up so I have to
enter my account password but I never even got to that screen so had to reset.


3. If you look at the attached photo, there is "Turn off harddisk after" setting. Right now it is at default 20 minutes. Does this mean that my hdd will turn off 20 minutes after going to sleep? Or just 20 miutes of idle?

4. Lastly, if my downloads won't work during default sleep mode setting, can I change the settings shown in the screenshot to make it possible? If so what settings should I change?

Thanks for reading this long and noob questions

[Mussels]

in sleep mode, the PC is off. no downloads for you.

2. You wake up by pressing the power button, or using the mouse and keyboard. These settings are controlled in the BIOS. To enter the password, type it on the keyboard and hit enter - if you set it in the BIOS as a wakeup, thats how - if you mean in vista, it will be a normal login screen.

3. there is no photo. 20 minutes of idle.

4. no. its not possible to do anything at all in sleep mode.

[spencer22l]

Oops, sorry for the attaching lol
But you solved all of my questions so no matter!

But then anyways, what's the point of sleep mode then?

[Mussels]

Originally Posted by spencer22l

Oops, sorry for the attaching lol
But you solved all of my questions so no matter!

But then anyways, what's the point of sleep mode then?

to save power like the machine was off, but be able to wake up and resume your work without interuption.

Programs do not close in sleep mode, so you dont lose any work you had open. I've even sleeped a machine while gaming (offline ofc) and woken it up and continued playing days later.

[Morrison5891]

Not everyone downloads at night, or has anything going on for that matter so sleep mode is fine for the most part, for most cosumers. Most people turn their PC off at night anyway... and don'y even know there is a "sleep mode"

[spencer22l]

I see, that could still be useful
Thanks for all your good answers !

[Morrison5891]

yea, its kinda usefull... personally, I don't use it ... And I don't know anyone that does.

[spencer22l]

Oh, I just suddenly had another question.

About the "turn off hdd after 20 min"

If I leave setting like that as default and download and when hdd turns off,
will the download stop because of it?

[Morrison5891]

When ur d/ling the hdd wont "idle" so there for it wont shut off after 20 minutes

[spencer22l]

Ohhh... I see now.

I always thought idle as like not moving mouse and not touching keyboard.

But I see now. Wow thanks for fast and good replies

[Morrison5891]

no problem ...

[Mussels]

Originally Posted by Morrison5891

yea, its kinda usefull... personally, I don't use it ... And I don't know anyone that does.

you know me!

I use it daily... its so much faster than waiting for a PC to boot up.