I have Vista Home Premium SP1, which came pre-installed on my PC.

I recently bought a UPS (APC ES700) and have been trying to set up its
accompanying software, PowerChute Personal Edition. I downloaded the correct
Vista version. The documentation states that PowerChute requires Hibernation
enabled, so I have been trying to get Hibernation to work on my PC, without
much success.

APC Support have said I need to turn off Away Mode to use normal Hibernation
settings but I am not sure how to do this. I found reference to Away Mode in
the Power Options under Multimedia settings, and I believe it may have been
turned on some time ago when we experimented with streaming photos to the TV
via the X-Box. We didn't get it to work properly and I don't use Windows
Media Centre (as opposed to windows Media Player). The Setting is currently
"prevent idling to sleep".

Last night I tried Sleep again, with PowerChute installed, and was unable to
wake up the PC. When I pushed the Power button on the PC the fans started up
but nothing else happened. I had to disconnect and reconnect the power cable
to get it to boot, then it came up as if from hibernation, with the windows
open on screen.

I have now uninstalled PowerChute as I simply don't trust it.

To top off the evening, after I shut the PC down for the night, I moved my
mouse connection from a USB hub to a PS/2 adaptor, to free up a USB port. As
soon as I plugged in the PS/2 connector, the machine booted up without my
touching its Power button. Does this have something to do with Away Mode?

I don't really want to use Hibernate at all, which is why I've never found
up up until now that there are issues with it on my PC. I never heard of
"Away Mode" until APC mentioned it. From what I have read on the web I don't
need it as I don't share media from my PC.

I'm not very technical, so hope no command line or registry edit stuff will
be needed to get rid of this "Away Mode" and get Hibernate to work correctly
so that my UPS can function as intended.