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Thread ID: 277	1998-10-12 01:55:00	Win 98: Notebook Standby/Suspend Function	Guest (0)	Press F1

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576	1998-10-12 01:55:00	After reading the PC World article in October's edition (p 22), I downloaded Pmtshoot.exe from Microsoft. I have a new Gateway 9100 running Windows 98, and its standby mode has the same effect as suspend. I had previously tested four or five portables in Gateway's Auckland showroom, and machines running on Win 98 all exhibited the same behaviour, namely no distinction between standby and suspend modes. The Win 95 machines did not have this problem. I ran Pmtshoot as directed by the (rather meagre) instructions contained in the extracted file. With the troubleshooter open I pressed the standby key, and subsequently the resume key. The program did not work. Its window returned thousands of lines of text and numbers, but nothing to indicate that it had located a problem or fixed it. It did not even state that it had finished its routine, despite my waiting a lengthy period for it to do so. I have tried running the utility several times, including using both standby and suspend keys. I have also installed and uninstalled the program several times, but each has the same effect, namely no fix. The program window gets to about line 4,500 and that's it. Gateway have advised that, under Win 98, there is no distinction between standby and resume. Can this be correct?.	Guest (0)
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