sorry Mel i missed this until now.

yes those buttons are not the best design - plastic junk LOL.

I don't like to leave things running all night so I shut down and let the BIOS start it up automatically every morning. I rarely have to use my on/off button at all, you can set auto start up in the BIOS section.

I don't know if you have ever gone into that part before.
It's accessed while the machine is in booting up stage - usually you have to hit delete or one of the F keys to get to it.

Might be best to read about it on the HP site or Google it - before trying it.

something like "HP BIOS settings" or
"setting automatic boot up on HP computer"
http://www.google.com/search?q=setti...ient=firefox-a
Some people do leave there's on full time, but I would disable, unplug or lock down the internet connection if you do leave it on full time.

Your anti virus program might have a setting to do this if it is a internet suite program.

Or if you have the connection icon on the task bar at the bottom - you should be able to right click and disconnect from the internet that way at night.
then reconnect same way in the morning when you want to use the computer /internet.

Jo, I have NO IDEA how to do this BIOS thing or autostart thing that you are referencing.
Isn't there a SLEEP mode in which I can press a button, and when I want it to COME ALIVE AGAIN, all I have to do is tap the keyboard. I used to have a computer (years ago), where I could do this.

Can't I do this on my HP Pavillion?

Thanks, Melody

Oh yes I'm sure you can- you can find those settings in the Windows Control Panel under Power Options.

[ To enable "hibernate," simply go to your Control

Panel, click on "power options," and set your PC to "hibernate" after a specified time (most recommend 30 minutes).

If you are away from your PC a lot during the work day, you may want to set it to "hibernate" after 45 minutes to an hour, and set it to "standby" to 15 minutes. Under "standby," you'll be conserving power but you won't be saving your computer memory onto your hard disk, as you will with "hibernate." "Standby" is meant for shorter absences. ] page 4
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusine...urnoffcomputer

Jo:

I went to Control Panel, there is no option called Power Options. I have Windows XP by the way. Alan goes to sleep at around 6 a.m. and I get up and I'm ready to check my email at about 10 a.m. so I gather I would use the standby mode, right. So when I figure out how to do Standby, what happens?

I go over to the computer, and press any button, and the computer WAKES UP, is this what happens?

Thanks much
Melody

P.S. UPDATE UPDATE.

STUPID ME, I FINALLY FOUND POWER OPTIONS. It gives me a choice of hibernate and standby. Which do I choose? Thanks

[Alan goes to sleep at around 6 a.m. and I get up and I'm ready to check my email at about 10 a.m.]

If it is only about 4 hrs of "off" time ??
Then you might as well leave it on full time and use the standby setting.

usually you hit a key or jiggle the mouse to wake it up.

Mel - not to alarm you, but when something similar happened to my Dell, it crashed not too long after that.

BACK UP your pc asap.

My laptop was getting a boot error, asking for a cd to boot. The boot sequence switched itself and the only way I could boot it up was to go in and reset it back to *boot from hard drive*. Worked for a while, but still got an error msg - I forget just what that said.

Got blue screens, all kinds of stuff. DS did save all my stuff. I got a new hard drive and put it in, ds put my files on it for me, no probs since.

I have no idea how to back up anything. All I need a pc for is to go on the internet. I would really like to buy a laptop but my husband is on this thing day and night and I don't think a laptop can be used DAY AND NIGHT, can it. I would replace my desktop with a laptop and plug it in exactly where my desktop is now plugged in. It wouldn't be moved around, it would stay on the computer table. But wouldn't it burn out or something. I wouldn't need to recharge it because it would be plugged in the same way my HP is now plugged in.


Can a person replace a desktop with a laptop and continually use it?

Just curious.

I really never get near this. My husband practically lives on this thing. He says "it makes me forget my neuropathy pain".

So if it does do that, who am I to tell him "get off".

He wouldn't listen anyway.

Melody