Vista Will Not Shutdown

G

Guest

I have XP and Vista running on a Dell XPS 700 in a dual boot configuration.
I cannot get Vista to power off. The display shuts down and I can hear the
hard drive stop after about 30 seconds but the power to the computer remains
on. I don't hve this problem with XP. Overall, Vista has been stable and a
good experience.
 
M

Mamamegs

Tenpin was thinking very hard :
I have XP and Vista running on a Dell XPS 700 in a dual boot
configuration. I cannot get Vista to power off. The display shuts
down and I can hear the hard drive stop after about 30 seconds but
the power to the computer remains on. I don't hve this problem with
XP. Overall, Vista has been stable and a good experience.

How do you shut down the PC? It seems to me the PC goes to 'Stand-by'
(Sleep) instead of 'Shut down'.

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Mamamegs.

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O

Otto Normalverbraucher

Mamamegs said:
Tenpin was thinking very hard :

How do you shut down the PC? It seems to me the PC goes to 'Stand-by'
(Sleep) instead of 'Shut down'.


Yes it goes to sleep by default.
You can change what pressing the power button does, closing the laptop
lid etc in the power settings in control panel.
....but to shut down, there is also a link from the arrow to the right of
the padlock in the start menu.
 
G

Guest

I click on Start Button and select shutdown.

Mamamegs said:
Tenpin was thinking very hard :

How do you shut down the PC? It seems to me the PC goes to 'Stand-by'
(Sleep) instead of 'Shut down'.

--
Mamamegs.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.
(Adam Savage)

www.vistabits.nl
(Now also in english)

MSN:
_*[email protected]*_
 

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