sleep function so called

doesn't like waking up that's fer sure

4 goes every time before I can access the net and doesn't recognise my usb hub

you fail MS vista

Is win7 any better?

wtf?

I forgot to add

sleep worked fine when I had xp but in vista it would wake about 10 seconds after it went to sleep and win 7 I think it does something similar or it wont wake at all.
I just don't bother and will wait until I buy different hardware and make sure that there are no known issues.

well it was working fine but since new updates it has accretionally gotten worse

My 7 sleeps and wakes without a care in the world. Previous Vista machines also did as well. So fuck knows what you lot are up to.

If you're talking about laptops, I know both HP and Toshiba have customised power management drivers or configs, always best to use them - I get considerably better battery life with such things installed. Also make sure you have the right chipset drivers too, that helps.

USB Drivers... check them.

Win7 works perfectly for me. From on to loading a page in less than 5 secs on my laptop, even though I last put it to sleep in Wellington.