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re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically'
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 9:57 pm
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Posted by Scott Wieduwilt (2 messages posted)

Open your registry and find the key below. Create a new string value, or modify the existing value, called PowerdownAfterShutdown and set it to "1" to power off the computer at shutdown, or "0" to reboot. Restart Windows for the change to take effect, It Worked for me......

On Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 5:54 am, Ileen wrote:
>Can anyone tell me why my Windows '98 desktop PC no longer automatically shuts down?
> For years it did and now I get the annoying "It is now safe to turn off your computer"
>message.
>
>The Advanced Power Management thingy does not have any options for automatic shutdown
>-- just two options; one for showing the power meter on hte taskbar and one for prompting
>for password after standby.
>
>The weird thing is sometimes the computer DOES shut down automatically, but most
>of the time does not. This all came about after switching to cable ISP and installing
>a firewall (Tiny Personal Firewall).
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>Ileen

Written in response to:: re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Ileen: Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 5:54 am)

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re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Mars the Infomage: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 8:26 am)

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Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (kassab: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 6:55 am)

re: automatic (hari: Mon, Feb 10, 2003, 10:17 am)

re: automatic (Matt : Mon, Sep 22, 2003, 2:19 am)

re: automatic (Donnie: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 9:55 am)

re: automatic (weavgeo: Tue, Aug 17, 2004, 5:58 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (MAYOR: Tue, Dec 21, 2004, 1:46 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Curt R: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 7:26 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Bobstur: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 8:04 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Curt R: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 8:27 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Debra Crayford: Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 3:05 pm)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Tom: Sun, Feb 3, 2002, 4:46 pm)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Scott Wieduwilt: Fri, Mar 8, 2002, 10:00 pm)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Kevin E.: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 12:13 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Bryan : Wed, Apr 10, 2002, 2:08 pm)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (TDP: Sun, Nov 2, 2003, 5:27 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Bobstur: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 10:13 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Keith: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 12:35 pm)

Why bother? (Paul D: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 4:17 pm)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Ileen: Thu, Aug 23, 2001, 5:54 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Scott Wieduwilt: Fri, Mar 8, 2002, 9:57 pm)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Mars the Infomage: Wed, Aug 21, 2002, 8:26 am)

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Glen: Thu, Aug 23, 2001, 1:36 pm)

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