Re: Damned pc won't switch off!?


"Gaz" <gazter@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frazer Jolly Goodfellow wrote:
"John Smith" <OrmesbyJohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Anyone advise on this one please...today the pc has started to
play up...viz when I switch it off in the normal way...click
Start/Turn off computer, it goes through the usual
routine...Windows is Logging Off...Windows is shutting
down...then at the point of clicking off it seems to do a double
click and starts up again!
So at the mo to turn off I'm switching off at the PSU.
Any thoughts,
Thanks, John

You probably have XP set to reboot after a fatal software error. So
a crash during shutdown causes a restart.

Change your settings to these:

My Computer - RtClk- Properties
Advanced tab
Startup and Recovery - Settings button
System Failure:
untick Automatically restart
tick Write an event to the system log
untick Send an admin alert
Write debugging info - select none

You should now get a BSOD when the error occurs and hence maybe
useful info on what's going wrong. Also check your system log after
rebooting to see what - if anything - has been reported.

As the last person said.... Possibly the cause is a piece of
software/service that wont stop allowing windows to close down. Programs
such as Norton Internet Security and Mcafee have a reputation for causing
shut down problems.....

Gaz
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That's great, Thanks. In fact I had just installed Windows Defender...maybe
that impacted.
Cheers,
John


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