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shut down
Name: dominator Date: July 31, 2009 at 17:32:56 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Subcategory: General
Comment:
when i go to shut down my computer it goes to shut down it the screen goes off and everthing but it stil stays on and the only way to shut it down is press the power button
Name: RobJohnB95 Date: August 1, 2009 at 06:41:23 Pacific
Reply:
i think you're getting confused with sleep, or hibenate. push the little arrow on the start menu and click shutdown, the icon that looks like shutdown is actually sleep mode.
if i'm wrong then try shutting down with a batch file
@echo off
shutdown /s
exit
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Response Number 2
Name: dominator Date: August 1, 2009 at 18:55:46 Pacific
Reply:
its not sleep i know the diference what it does is like sleep though and the power button stays on blue and sleep is yellow and i always press shut down thanks for the help
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Response Number 3
Name: dominator Date: August 1, 2009 at 19:13:17 Pacific
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how do i create that batch file how do i create a batch file
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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertooth Date: August 1, 2009 at 19:19:13 Pacific
Reply:
dominator,
I imagine what RobJohnB95 was implying was that the default action for the power button on the start menu in Vista is actually sleep & not shut down. And unless you manually reconfigure the setting, the system will always go to sleep any time you hit the power button on the start menu to shut the machine down.
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Bad shut down message
