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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 2:55 pm
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Posted by Lorna L. Harrington (13 messages posted)



Go to the Control Panel>Power Options area. I believe it was solved by enabling APM 
(Advanced Power Management). Also, I believe I disabled Hibernation (I hate that 
anyway). In Win98 SE, there was an option to allow your power button to hibernate 
or shut down, which is now gone. 






On Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 5:37 pm, Denise wrote: >I have a question about When >I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting >down:

>I have a problem with shutdown, and windows xp. I hope someone can help. I have just >installed a burner and roxio easy cd creator and my computer has not shutdown properly >since. Also my d drive is not acessible. I have had my computer to a technician and >He said I may have to change my operating system but I really like xp. Does anyone >have a suggestion for me. >Greatly appreciated. >




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Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Denise: Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 5:37 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Denise: Sun, Jan 20, 2002, 5:37 pm)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Rob: Sun, Jan 20, 2002, 9:16 pm)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (roy: Mon, Feb 4, 2002, 2:55 pm)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (micheal: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 11:22 am)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Lorna L. Harrington: Mon, Jan 21, 2002, 2:55 pm)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (P.J.: Tue, Jan 22, 2002, 1:06 am)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Rob Jenkins: Thu, Feb 7, 2002, 11:53 am)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Bizon71: Fri, Jul 30, 2004, 11:52 pm)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Usman Zia: Sun, Nov 27, 2005, 8:01 pm)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Brad Taylor: Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:47 am)
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