Vista: Enable Sleep Mode After Configuring Media Center
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Vista If you selected the option to have shared media available during your setup of Media Center, you will notice that your PC will no longer enter Sleep Mode. Media Center disables the Sleep Mode function to allow the shared media to be accessed. To restore Sleep Mode functionality, do the following:
1. Go to the Control Panel.
2. Select Classic View in the left pane.
3. Double-click Power Options.
4. Go to the current power plan and select Change advanced power settings.
5. Select Change advanced power settings.
6. Scroll down to the bottom of the list.
7. Expand Multimedia settings.
8. Expand When sharing media.
9. Click on the setting so that it changes to a dropdown.
10. Select Allow the computer to sleep.
11. Click OK.
12. Close the Edit Plan Settings window.
You may also like -
Hulu / Media Center - Launch Hulu Desktop within Media Center / Integrate Hulu into Media Center
Windows 7: Automatically Start Windows Media Center When Windows Starts
Windows 7: Configure XP Mode for Novell Client and Mapped Network Drives
BlackBerry Bold: Transfer Pictures and Videos to a XP, Vista, or Windows 7 PC
Netflix Streaming: Device Comparisons and Frequently Asked Questions
Windows 7: Enable Print Screen for Media Center's Full Screen Mode
Zune: Sync Device with Your PC Over Your Wireless Network
WMP: How To Reset Windows Media Player File Associations
sachindra said on May 25, 2009
Fantastic solution my system started working now.
Sachindar
Saix_XIII said on December 16, 2009
I know this is an old post, but this feature was annoying me and I could not figure out how to disable it so it would let my computer go to Sleep mode. Thank you very much for posting a fix for this annoying issue.
Andrei_rossi said on April 20, 2011
it doesn’t work on my pc