Why won’t my PC with Vista go to sleep when it is not active?

I have an HP m8020n. I can put it into sleep mode manually, and it will stay in sleep mode until I wake it up with the keyboard or the mouse (or until something like my antivirus software is scheduled to run).
However, it won’t go into sleep mode automatically. I’ve created a custom [...]

Vista Business – can it really be this slow?

We waited with baited breath for Vista to be installed at work – would speed up our clogged up system etc – now it seems worse than ever.
Can it really be this slow? I am not imagining it – I time how long I wait for that damn blue circle to go round [...]