Re: [OT] Shut down
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pac?el?.net> Aug 06, 2007
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DB James wrote: > > don cole wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I am having trouble shuting down my computer with Windows XP. When > > I shut down the screen says "It is now safe to shut off your computer". > > Then I have to turn off the computer by hand. > > Before it just shut down when I walked away from it. It just started doing > > this. > > I looked this up on Annoyances.org and they say "Go to Control Panel/Power > > Options > > and click the APM tab to toggle this on and off. Problem is when I go to > > Power > > Options there isn't any APM tab. > > > > Has anybody else had this problem? > > > > Don Cole > > Hmm, do you have an "Advanced" tab? On my XP Home version, that tab has the > option "When I press the power button on my computer:" and below is a drop- > down list of options, including "Shut down". > > --Quark Hello Quack, Thank you. I do have an Advance Tab. It has 2 check boxes, "Always show icon in taskbar" and "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby?" And that's all no drop down list. Don Cole