Win XP Restarting Insted of Shutdown

[Carlos]

Can someone tell me why every time i try to shutdown my
computer it restart itself?

 

[Dave - Freedonia]

Try this site...
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can someone tell me why every time i try to shutdown my
computer it restart itself?

You have something that is crashing on being asked to close - and the
system's 'automatically restart' is cutting in. Turn this off: in
Control Panel - System - Advanced, click Settings in the Startup and
Recovery section. There uncheck 'automatically restart'. You can also
usefully change the 'write debugging information' to (none) unless you
are actively needing a dump for debugging something, or to 'minidump' if
you are getting errors that you wish to report on to Microsoft. You
may now get a Blue screen failure instead, but at least will get some
guidance as to what is happening

 

[John Smith]

Try this site...
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

One of the reasons of this restart is that there is a untility prog.
which is working in the background which has been configured to be
activated after Windows shutdown is executed. Check and see if you
have any utility prog. such as Window_washer etc. that has been
configured to clean when Windows shutdowns. If so then disable this
function.