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re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically'
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:00 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 Give it a shot, it worked for me....

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at 3:05 pm, Debbi wrote:
>I have been reading several different opinions of others on how to do this. My question
>is my computer did shut down by itself until recently and then no longer would. I
>wrote to the forum and was told to change the apm which I did to no avail. I then
>was told to try holding the power button in for about 5-7 seconds and see what that
>does. It worked but my question is how can I get it back to shutting down on its
>own. I want this machine back to where it was when I bought it and can't seem to
>find the problem why it stopped shutting down by itself. Thanks.
>Debbi
>

Written in response to:: re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Debra Crayford: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at 3:05 pm)

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re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Kevin E.: Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 12:13 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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