[jbk1043]

I have Vista Home Premium version 6, build 6000 installed on my notebook. I have a wireless home network for my PC and my notebook. When my notebook goes into sleep mode, my PC can no longer see the notebook on the network.

I've discovered why: when I wake the notebook up, the "file and printer sharing for Microsoft networks" is disabled (navigate to network and sharing center, wireless network connection, view status, properties, "file and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks"). I click on the box to enable sharing and the notebook reappears on the network. I have to do this everytime I bring the notebook out of sleep mode.

This is really annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions for a fix?

[crazy4laptops]

while your computer is in sleep mode, almost all the devices are turned off, cpu, hdd, network card, etc. So it is very hard to connect to a sleeping computer.

Computers have to awake and on in order to be useful on a network.

But reading the second part of your post says that vista disables networking after you resume from sleep. Try setting the networking service to automatic instead of manual. (type services.msc in the run box)