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Re: [OT] Shut down

• Posted by DB James <larches at comca?t?net> Aug 06, 2007
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don cole wrote:
> 
> 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

Hi Dun,

Quack?  No, I would either swim away or be rich, depending on the type of
quack.  Quirk, maybe...

As to your problem, the Help info says the Power options are based on the
hardware.  I have no idea why XP would have changed its detection of that,
but it seems that it has.

--Quark