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re: WINDOWS2000 does not shut down completely Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:30 pm Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Skinny "Is this normall?" Yes and No Not all computers can do this. "shut down automatically" Take a look at the BIOS setting on your machine and open the Power Icon in the Control Panel. Windows should pick this up if your machine can take it on and set it up for you. On Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 5:59 pm, Skinny wrote: >When I shut down my PC, windows2000 does not shut down automatically. I have to hit >the shutdown button to the tower for 3-4 secs for it to shut down. Is this normall? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WINDOWS2000 does not shut down completely Monday, September 26, 2005 at 1:47 am Posted by JT (61 messages posted) Some security/tweaking apps will set the Group Policy Object to clear the pagefile at shutdown. If your pagefile is large (or your hard drive is slow), it may take a good bit of time. Also, if yours is a secure computer - i.e., not locally accessible to the public (aka, crackers) - this is somewhat unecessary to do. To prevent pagefile clearing at shutdown, do this: Click Start, click Run, type gpedit.msc, and then click OK. In the Group Policy Object Editor dialog box, expand Computer Configuration, expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, and then click Security Options. In the right pane, double-click Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile. In the Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile Properties dialog box that appears, click Disabled, and then click OK. Quit the Group Policy Object Editor. Hope this helps, JT On Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 5:59 pm, Skinny wrote: >When I shut down my PC, windows2000 does not shut down automatically. I have to hit >the shutdown button to the tower for 3-4 secs for it to shut down. Is this normall? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WINDOWS2000 does not shut down completely Friday, September 30, 2005 at 8:17 pm Posted by Skinny (2 messages posted) JT clearing my pagefile did not fix the problem. Skinny [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum