No, not really. I intended this as a Gaming PC and I wanted it running full speed at all times. I do have EIST lowering the clocks when idle now whereas it was always locked at 4.7 GHz. If I were rich I would be eccentric I guess. Right now the Sleep option doesn't even appear in the Windows Start button properties either.
Can someone post a screenshot of their Regedit so I can see what this entry should look like and enter it manually?
Zuhl,
Download and merge the .reg file attached below, then restart the computer afterwards. It'll restore the default registry entries for Sleep. Hopefully, it'll help. :)
That removed the Power entry entirely as seen in the screenshot below. I will try a Repair Install of Windows if necessary when I get my MSI board returned this week. My laptop's Registry looks identical without a Sleep entry. I looked in there last night hoping to find a value to enter manually into my Desktop's Registry. Here are my PC's specs except for my current Fatal1ty Z97 Killer motherboard by ASRock: Mods Rigs
Sleep is still grayed out in my Power-off drop down menu and not available in Power Button properties selections. I may have to enter the values manually to get my Sleep function back again. Thanks for all of your assistance.
What about the rest of the .reg file I uploaded? Did it restore the other registry entries for you?
Do you by chance have any all-in-one type utility programs installed that could be disabling sleep?
Sleep was working fine until I ran your Reg file to gray it out although I never used it. I thought it would be useful having it grayed out. I don't know what other Reg entries you are refering to. The reg file you uploaded deleted the Power entry after I ran it. The last time I ran the 'Enable Sleep' Reg file I got a warning that 'Disable Sleep' was preventing Windows from shutting down although I was running the 'Enable Sleep' file. I cancelled the Sutdown and ran the file again. Windows restarted but no success at restoring the Sleep function. Maybe there is another Registry key that was affected?
In that case, do a system restore using a restore point dated before you had this issue to undo it.
I don't know when the problem began. I never use sleep anyway so having it grayed out was useful so I didn't click it by accident. I plan to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional so I can max out my memory to 32 GB and will reinstall this Home Premium on my latest project. I got a G3258 and MSI Z97 PC Mate motherboard for $99 plus a $10 rebate. I couldn't resist. My bad.
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