Ok, so I need to work out how to disable the sleep option on Win7 (and I mean when the sleep option is picked from the options when you can turn the machine off.
The reason why I ask - I've donated my old machine to my parents - and well my Dad can seemily break a PC by looking at it, anyways, after spending a whole lot of time doing a clean install of Windows, installing various bits and pieces and moving all my parents data from a laptop (which takes about 15 mins to boot and goes at the speed of a dead slug) I thought it worked fine.
So Dad went near it and instead of shutting down, he selected 'sleep' - this is because sleep us is the same place as 'shut down' was in Vista - and at this point the machine threw a complete hissy-fit - it reset its BIOS - noting that in the 3 years I used it excessively I never made it go to sleep so I'd not seen that issue before.
So after reseting its BIOS it decided that the first thing to try and boot from was the memory-card reader - d'oh!
So I changed it to the only hard drive in the BIOS, which I thought was odd since there are two HDD's, and it failed to boot from that, mainly cos it was the empty hard drive with nothing on it ....
So back to the BIOS and fiddled with the hard drives, swapped them round and then the correct one showed in the BIOS (and the second one didn't anymore, still a bit odd - I thought it should show both still) and it then booted properly - all sorted - well after a bit of farting around, since it claimed it couldn't unhibernate
But I want to know how to stop 'sleep' from every either being selected or doing anything - cos lest face it, I couldn't easily explain what need to be done on the phone to my parents who live 220 miles away form me.
So any hints how I can stop my parents from accidentally selecting 'sleep' to stop this happening again? Theyre not particularly computer-literate and as I said my Dad seems to be able to break PC's by looking at them.
The reason why I ask - I've donated my old machine to my parents - and well my Dad can seemily break a PC by looking at it, anyways, after spending a whole lot of time doing a clean install of Windows, installing various bits and pieces and moving all my parents data from a laptop (which takes about 15 mins to boot and goes at the speed of a dead slug) I thought it worked fine.
So Dad went near it and instead of shutting down, he selected 'sleep' - this is because sleep us is the same place as 'shut down' was in Vista - and at this point the machine threw a complete hissy-fit - it reset its BIOS - noting that in the 3 years I used it excessively I never made it go to sleep so I'd not seen that issue before.
So after reseting its BIOS it decided that the first thing to try and boot from was the memory-card reader - d'oh!
So I changed it to the only hard drive in the BIOS, which I thought was odd since there are two HDD's, and it failed to boot from that, mainly cos it was the empty hard drive with nothing on it ....
So back to the BIOS and fiddled with the hard drives, swapped them round and then the correct one showed in the BIOS (and the second one didn't anymore, still a bit odd - I thought it should show both still) and it then booted properly - all sorted - well after a bit of farting around, since it claimed it couldn't unhibernate
But I want to know how to stop 'sleep' from every either being selected or doing anything - cos lest face it, I couldn't easily explain what need to be done on the phone to my parents who live 220 miles away form me.
So any hints how I can stop my parents from accidentally selecting 'sleep' to stop this happening again? Theyre not particularly computer-literate and as I said my Dad seems to be able to break PC's by looking at them.
