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Windows XP will not shutdown

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Name: Makee
Date: August 5, 2002 at 01:15:54 Pacific
Comment:

Hello,
When I try to shutdown my computer, it will restart the computer instead. Does anyoone know why. It just recently started doing this. Any help is appreciated.Thanks



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Name: stryke
Date: August 5, 2002 at 01:22:07 Pacific
Reply:

check your control panel -> power management options. enable APM and shutdown (or something similar) support. that should solve your problem.


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Response Number 2
Name: Magnus
Date: August 5, 2002 at 01:26:43 Pacific
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Microsoft wrote about this problem at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?ID=KB;EN-US;Q311806&
;LN=EN-US&rnk=49&SD=tech&FR=0&qry=check%20disk%20start%20at%20start%20up&src=DHCS_MSPSS_tech_SRCH&SPR=WINXP&

/hope it helps...


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Response Number 3
Name: Makee
Date: August 5, 2002 at 01:35:45 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for the quick response. It really helped!!!


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