Lost the Standby option in Win98 SE, how do I get it back??

[John P]

I used to have the standby option in the shutdown menu, but now it doesn't show up. How do I get it back??

 

[Floyd]

Open the registry and navigate to the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VPOWERD key.

Change the following two values as indicated below:

SuspendFlag = 0
SuspendHasWorkedFlag = 1

This was one of those learn-the-hard-way nuggets of info. Enjoy!

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[Floyd]

John, wondering if you spotted the thread. Never heard anything from you, and your profile is disabled...

 

[JaiKnight]

Do you just reverse those to get rid of the button? (I hate clicking on that thing by accident!!)

 

[Floyd]

I don't follow, do you mean the button that says something to the effect, "Do you want to prevent your system from going into Standby in the future?" ?

If you click yes, it changes those two values to something like 2 and 512 (if I remember correctly) which triggers removal of Standby from the options in the shutdown dialog. Restoring these values will return the standby option.

Again, this is one of those asinine undocumented "features" of Windows...I had to find an old copy of the registry, restore it, and use some context clues to find where this information might be stored in the registry. Then swap back the registry and compare values. I've since needed to apply it to several machines and can indeed confirm that it works.

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[JaiKnight]

I meant the actual standby button, I hate accidentally putting my computer into standby mode when I actually mean to shut it down. Thanks!

 

[Floyd]

No, that's something else entirely.

Maybe try cleaning your mouse

Best regards,
Floyd