From: address@is.invalid   
      
   JJ,   
      
   >> IOW, many 'puters nowerdays are not /totally/ powered-down.   
   >   
   > OP already said "... shut it down, then turn the power off, ...".   
   > So, going into sleep mode after shutting the system down, would   
   > not make any sense.   
      
   Thats the whole point I tried to make : nowerdays "turn the power off" can   
   mean a number of things, *including* having the PC (lappy or otherwise)   
   going to sleep or hibernation.  It depends on how its configured.   
      
   ... but I have to confess that I missed that the OP's "shut it down" was a   
   two-step process, ending in actually removing power from the 'puter.   
   And yes, having the 'puter go to sleep and than yank its power would not be   
   a good idea.   
      
   > OP has Windows XP, so there's no BCD and BCDEDIT. Only BOOT.INI and   
   > BOOTCFG.   
      
   Grumble.  I took that from the wrong section.  On the provided webpage the   
   XP instructions are under step #7 , which mentions editing of the boot.ini   
   file.   
      
      
   So :   
      
   1) change boot-ini, execute "shutdown -r"   
   2) Restore boot-ini, execute shutdown -s"  <-- changed argument   
   3) turn the power off, wait a second, turn the power on, press the   
   power-button to commence booting.   
      
   The first two steps can be put into batch files.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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