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I’ve been driven crazy over the last few days trying to figure out why the hell my Windows Vista PC won’t go into standby. Every time I tell it to stand by it goes through the motions and then immediately wakes back up again. I had set up various bits of hardware in device manager (network cards in particular) to not wake up the computer. It turns out the problem was my crappy USB keyboard. Even though I never pressed any of its keys after telling the computer to go to standby it would keep waking it up again and again. Disabling its wake up ability in device manager did the trick - I just have to use the computer’s power button to wake it up rather than pressing a key.