I've at last bought a new laptop

[Scylla]

Thanks, Macca, I want to phone Dell anyway. I can't think of any way I can use the software without "disturbing" the lappy in one way or another, what a blinking shame

[maccafan]

In the meantime, I 'll have a look around and see if I can find something that would allow you to define a combi key press to switch off and a combi key press to wake..