cueman,
To me it sounds like you're asking about hibernation mode.
I know of 2 reasons why hibernation will not be available:
1) You must have at least as much free space on your boot partion as
you have ram.
2) If you ran disk cleanup in Vista, it probably deleted the
hibernation file.
Please see the following:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897
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> When I shutdown Vista Windows , it LOGS OFF , and SHUTS DOWN , but it does
> NOT "Save my settings" Is there a way to reset it to save my settings ?/
> Thank you
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