"it is now safe to turn off your computer" message

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Matt

I installed Windows 2000 Professional in 2 machines. In machine A, it shows
a message saying "it is now safe to turn off your computer" when it shuts
down. But this never happens in machine B. I just find this is interesting,
so that message is machine independent? or some setting issues? I never
change a setting like this.

please advise. thanks!!
 
Matt said:
I installed Windows 2000 Professional in 2 machines. In machine A, it shows
a message saying "it is now safe to turn off your computer" when it shuts
down. But this never happens in machine B. I just find this is interesting,
so that message is machine independent? or some setting issues? I never
change a setting like this.

please advise. thanks!!
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Newer ACPI-compliant computers can power off automatically,
while older machines cannot. If the two machines are identical,
check the system bios settings for ACPI and/or APM.

Rick
 
No it should actually be how you installed dependent. If you upgrade Windows 98 then you will get that. The image is actually in shutdown.sys I believe.
 
Rick said:
Newer ACPI-compliant computers can power off automatically,
while older machines cannot. If the two machines are identical,
check the system bios settings for ACPI and/or APM.

Rick
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I'm having the same problem on my Windows 2000 Pro box. I know for a fact
that the computer is new enough to be ACPI-compliant, as it had been
shutting it self off (when I choose Shut Down, of course) all along, until
recently.


Recently my profile got corrupted, and I had to rebuild/restore it. However,
now I'm getting that "safe to turn off your computer" message when I shut
down.


How can I fix this, so the computer will actually power itself off again?
 
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