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solved windows 7 sleep problem

Sleep mode was grayed out on new Dell laptop (Latitude E6420) on Windows 7.

The fix was to disable the legacy VGA driver, which came up with a yellow warning icon in Device Manager ("device cannot start").

Simply installing the latest Intel Graphics drivers did not fix the issue - the legacy VGA driver had to be explicitly disabled.
Written on September 24, 2011