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re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically'
Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 8:27 am
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Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted)

Yes it will! To be honest Bob, I wasn't sure how to answer this post since I assumed the user meant to shut it off with the switch when he had already gone "Start >> Shutdown" The only way I know to do that is enable APM in the BIOS (or disable it depending on what yours is set to first) and that doesn't always do the trick. To my way of thinking, using the switch to shut off your PC when you can have it shut off automatically is the equivalent of loading DOS on your brand new P4 machine........going backwards instead of moving ahead.

I probably should have put more thought into my reply, or shouldn't have bothered replying at all because I get frustrated with people who want to go backwards or stay static and tend to be sarcastic in my replies when I get in that mood.

On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 8:04 am, Bobstur wrote:
>Curt, won't that cause scandisk to run on reboot?
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Bob Sturtevant
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>http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/

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>Please reply in the forum and let us know.
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>On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 7:26 am, Curt R wrote:
>Hold the power switch in for 4 seconds. The new ATX form factor
>motherboards were designed to power off automatically, a feature a lazy
>fella like me appreciates! :)
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Written in response to:
re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Bobstur: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 8:04 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Bobstur: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 10:13 am)

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

re: Windows Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (TDP: Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 5:27 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

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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