Power Management Change Shuts System Down after 2 Minutes

[Guest]

I was setting up my power management options to enable standby and hibernate,
and clicked over to the UPS button to check it out. I experimented with some
settings but thought I closed it out without saving. Shortly after, my PC
began shutting down after about 2 minutes. When I try to right-click on the
desktop, I get a variety of .exe messages that say "application failed to
initialize because the window station is shutting down", so I can't get into
Properties to check it out. By the time the error messages finish running,
the computer shuts down again.

I tried to do the powercfg /RestoreDefaultPolicies, but when I was finally
able to get the command typed in, nothing changed.

Any suggestions? Please?

 

[bxf]

I was setting up my power management options to enable standby and hibernate,
and clicked over to the UPS button to check it out. I experimented with some
settings but thought I closed it out without saving. Shortly after, my PC
began shutting down after about 2 minutes. When I try to right-click on the
desktop, I get a variety of .exe messages that say "application failed to
initialize because the window station is shutting down", so I can't get into
Properties to check it out. By the time the error messages finish running,
the computer shuts down again.

I tried to do the powercfg /RestoreDefaultPolicies, but when I was finally
able to get the command typed in, nothing changed.

Any suggestions? Please?

In the absence of anything better, you can use System Restore to back
up to a point you know works. Also, booting into Safe Mode may enable
you to make some configuration changes that you are not able to make
otherwise.

 

[Guest]

OK, I got the power to stay on, but now none of my programs will run - I get
rundll32.exe errors when I try to right-click on the desktop, rstrui.exe dll
failures, winword\.exe failures. I'm running an updated version of Norton
Antivirus, and am reasonably certain this is not the spyware rundll problem.

Any suggestions on this one - and how is it related to the power management
problem?

TIA

 

[Roger]

OK, I got the power to stay on, but now none of my programs will run - I
get
rundll32.exe errors when I try to right-click on the desktop, rstrui.exe
dll
failures, winword\.exe failures. I'm running an updated version of
Norton
Antivirus, and am reasonably certain this is not the spyware rundll
problem.

Any suggestions on this one - and how is it related to the power
management
problem?

TIA

:

[snip]

Get rid of Norton and change to free AVG etc you won't get problems with
conflicts then.

Roger