One of the drawbacks to putting your system to sleep is that certain devices or programs can be ‘messed up’ due to the system powering down. This can cause a problem when the system resumes as when power is restored, the item may think it is malfunctioning. If this is a problem, try Hibernate Trigger.

This unique program allows you to specify a command to run prior to and restoring from standby or hibernate mode. For example, if Program X isn’t standby friendly then you can have Hibernate Trigger run a command to shutdown the program prior to entering standby and then have the program restarted upon resume. If you need to perform multiple tasks, simply create a batch file and have that executed.

Hibernate Trigger is a great utility to have and you can’t beat the price (free).