From windows help:
Stand by and Hibernate appear only if your computer supports
these features and you have turned them on in Power Options.
See Power Options overview in Help.

                                          Rick Glazier

From: "dfisch2"
>About a year ago I aquired a Gateway computer (3,000Mhz, 1,024MB memory)
>preloaded with MS XP.  Later, however, it appeared that some files were corrupted
>so I moved all files to an external disk and then installed Gateway's "System Recovery"
>disk, which supposedly contained Windows XP.  This corrected all problems but
>created another - the 'Stand By' function disappeared.  Is there a simple way to get it back?

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