?Do what I do. Open the start menu if you have win 7 and hit the left arrow. Open the shotdown split button with the right arrow. Choose sleep on the list that appears and hit enter. Now your computer is in sort of a standby/sleep mode. Very useful on university! Ask other list members to explain the prosses on XP or vista. Yadiel From: Brandon Keith Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 2:47 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Shutting down problem! Hello, I'm not sure what's going on: About 1 out of every 5 times I close my laptop it shuts down. I'm not sure if windows is installing an update or what, but it gets super super annoying, especially when I have 5 or 6 programs up at once and I need to restart them all. And because I'm in school I have to close my lap-top at least 5 times a day. This has always happened and I'm not sure how to fix it. I changed the option to hibernate when the lid gets shut rather than go to sleep, but that only decreased the shutting down from 1 every 3 times to 1 every 5 times and increased the time I need to wait for my computer to start up. I'm not sure if there is something that says it will shut down when I close my lid or what? Any help would be really appreciated! Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith