Shutting Down Leads To Restart Always / Unable To Restart?
May 4, 2007I am working on a friends computer running XP PRO. When shutting down ie, clicking the Turn Off button, Windows always reboots as if Restart was selected.
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Restart Hung On Shutting Down
Aug 1, 2008I've been running my XP SP3 machine all merrily along, with three internal HD's (two large partitioned) and yesterday my Start - Restart hung on Windows Is Shutting Down. I did a hard restart, ran Start - Shutdown successfully, after startup tried Start - Restart again and got same hang. So, hard reboot, Start - Shutdown...OK, Startup, Start - Restart worked! Shut down machine for the night, powered on this morning, then Start - Restart... same hang. I remember in W95SE the problem with large drives, but I've never seen that in XP.
So, what did I do new? Installed ProShow Gold software, which required disabling my CD RW drive to find my CD/DVD RW drive correctly. The only other funny thing I see is burning a disk of JPEG's either in NERO or Picasa, then putting the disc back in the CD/DVD drive and not being able to read it. I get "wrong function", the eject button doesn't work, so have to eject from Explorer. Other computers read it fine. When I installed NERO the CD DVD RW drive was made INCD auto-formatable, so that screen pops up whenever a blank is inserted. I just dismiss it. But this symptom looks like XP thinks the disk I burned was written in MRW format, not just ISO. Also, Explorer changes the My Computer icon for the drive from CD/DVD to just CD when the newly burned DVD is inserted - weird.
Pressing Restart Option Twice For Making System Restart?
Sep 24, 2009All of a sudden, in the last couple of days, I find that I have to go through my Start>Turn off Computer > Restart twice in order for the computer to restart. Unfortunately, I've made a LOT of changes in the past few days (new programs, a system restore, windows registry cleanup, startup configuration changes, etc.) so I have no idea what caused this.
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Aug 5, 2007It doesn't seem like any of the posts that I've seen have the same detailed characteristics as my situation. Whenever my computer is started and logged on, a few minutes go by, then the message "unable to launch restart.exe" pops up. Once we hit the OK button, everything seems to be fine. So it's not a big problem, but it's kind of a nuisance.
As I said previously, I have read MANY other posts regarding this error, but it seems everyone was having much more serious problems regarding this message. This computer seems to run just fine after we hit the OK button on the error message. FYI... this is an HP computer, running XP Home Edition, P4 2.93 Ghz, 1 Gig ram, Ad-aware is installed, and Norton Internet Security 2006, both of which are fully up-to-date and scans have been performed. All standard windows disk utilities have also been run. I don't know what else is appropriate to tell you. I do have Hijack This installed and have run it once... but at the time I wasn't registered for any of these help forums. If needed I can run it again and save the log file for someone to assist me.
Automatic Restart On Boot Unless Choose "Disable Automatic Restart"?
Aug 13, 2009I have searched around a bit to see if others have ran into this problem, but I have had no luck so far. When I start my computer, it pops up with the standard menu it uses when an OS error has caused a restart. I can't get it too load windows using safe mode, last known good configuration, or normal mode. I never even see the windows loading screen, it restarts immediately.
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Nov 9, 2008have a weird problem, when I am logged in as me on my computer it will not let me restart, or shut down my computer..I then made a Test account with Admin privaledges and that works fine, I cab log off, restart, and or shut down.. No problem at all...But then when I log in as me, again nothing, I can switch users, but it won't let me shut down or restart
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Nov 8, 2006For no obvious reason my NIS 2004 became corrupted and on startup I continually got a warning box saying Norton autoprotection was disabled. I could go no further. I was able to start in safe mode and completely disable NIS. I contacted Symantec, (completely useless) and after hrs on the phone had it manually uninstalled. There was one file I couldn't delete so the support person told me to download some removal tool and after that my computer was stuffed. I didn't bother attempting to reinstall NIS. It was very slow. I couldn't use many programs or the disc drive System restore or restoring the registry didn't help.
I contacted dell who's first suggestiong was to reformat the harddrive and reinstall windows. (I have winXP home) I did a windows repair which seemed.At the moment things aren't too bad. Still slow. My Computer and drop down boxes take ages to open. The services folder is slow to open. AVG scans come up with the kernel/shell/ntoskrnl changed log. I can't update windows anymore. I keep getting the "Files required to use Windows Update are no longer registered or installed" message and this just loops. The internet disconnects every 5min.
After Install Of SP2 Pc Won't RESTART
Feb 26, 2005After clean install of SP@ my pc won't RESTART It will shut down and stay there with all the fans running and my "Think light"
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Dec 6, 2004Have a hp Pavilion 4600ze. Nice laptop and running Windows XP. Have always (almost always) had the situation that if choose restart it will log out and go to black screen and not restart (I'm sure it isn't shutting down). Just sits there and only by powering down can one start back up. I recall finding something on the web to make a change so that Windows XP could be sent through restart OK.
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Mar 16, 2005My new computer, running XP SP2, generally works fine. However, 9 times out of 10, when I try to log off or shut down at the end of the day, nothing happens. I've trying all the different ways of shutting down I know of (Task Manager, Start Bar, etc.), but nothing has any effect. I can only turn off the computer by manually hitting the power button.
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Apr 17, 2007My PC won't shutdown through Windows (nor will it 'Restart' through Windows).
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Computer Restart Itself?
May 4, 2006I had SP1 in my laptop. So, I updated to SP2 and now XP loading screen shows up and 10 seconds later it goes blank. The machine then proceeds to reboot itself. Also, safe mode does not work.
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May 7, 2006i was wondering if there is anyway to change the ip of my computer without resarting it or unplugging my internet for a while?
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Jun 8, 2010my computer restarts on its own while i m working on the internet or playing or doing any other stuff.It's quite irritating especially when i m doing something important.somebody adcvised e to turn off AUTOMATIC RESTART under STARTUP & RECOVERY in the my computer menu, which i did but it still restarts without any error.
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May 30, 2010I had a problem with my pc for a while and i can't find any solution on the i-net. My problem is that when i restart my pc, it turns off for about 3-5 seconds then delay 2-3 sec and bios starts, then the os. The question is why it shuts down when i restart my pc. I'm not overclocker, and this problem came recently.
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Apr 20, 2007My PC seems to run slower everyday; takes about 10 minutes just to restart it. Applications are sluggish and "surfing" the net is so slow it's easier to drag out the phone book.
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Apr 12, 2006The adminstrator screems comes on when ever I restart. I don't want this screen, I want my computer to go directly to the desktop as it did before. Does anyone know how to remove this prompt? I also recently added my dell lapton (Win M.E.) to my router to share internet, & the adminstrator screen comes on the laptop too. my son uses that one, it its annoyong to have to use a password.
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Sep 28, 2006When I go to turn off my computer or restart it, it tries to end task for the iexplorer.exe. It will say the program is not responding and the computer won't turn off or restart like I asked it to.
Also, when I open up my task manager and look in processes I see that iexplorer.exe is still running when I don't have any IE windows open at all. And the strange thing is I can't end task it and there's 2 of them.
Computer Restart Constantly
Dec 30, 2006My computer is restarting constantly. I tried sunning my virus software and it doesnt even work now. i tried and online scanner but it restarted when it started scanning. Now you guys are my last hope T-T.
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Feb 16, 2009hey i recently got a HP compaq nx9110 for super cheap, everything was working ok untill i shut it down. i turned it back on and everything i had done was gone. i can fully install 9194223495 programs, or even delete everything i want to, when i restart, everything is the same? since i have looked all over the internet looking for solutions and have came up with nothing.i wasnt worried about it at first cause i got the thing for 100 bucks, but it just seems kind of completely useless now.
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Sep 5, 2005i just instaled win xp and office. everything works ok.just when i shutdown the computer it restart it self as if i just pushed the restart button. that is why i need each time to reset the computer.
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Mar 18, 2006My laptop (Presario 2700) froze last night. I tried to restart it several times and it completely stops at the Windows XP screen. Running the Home edition. Even in safe mode, it stops at the XP screen.
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Dec 8, 2005I have reviewed the following thread and discovered that the solution does not work on my WinXP Pro SP2 computer.Solved: XP shut down window Jag11 in post#3 of the thread and the original poster applied this fix which worked for the original poster, CactusJack: Control Panel>User Accounts Click Change the way users log on or off, tick the Use the Welcome screen, then click Apply Options.When I click on Start, there are only two buttons at the bottom: Log Off and Turn Off Computer, and no green icon for Restart. The green icon can be found when the Turn Off Computer icon is pressed and appears to the right of Stand by and Turn Off icons in the displayed window (Turn off computer) at the center of the screen.Is there a fix for this problem - i.e. how do I get the Restart icon back at the botton of the Start button display? Or, is this how WinXP Pro SP2 is normally, and not considered a problem?
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Mar 15, 2006It seem that my CD and DVD drives has gone away. I have tried to restart and restore but nothing is working.I also have been getting this message: Attention Your compter has been attacked form the Internet.Network attack Intrusion.Win.Messenger.Exploit from address 65.159.178.35.
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Jun 10, 2009I originally lost my windows "luna" themes and it reverted back to classic themes only
at this point it would not let me change the theme without giving me a much dreaded error message for even highlighting the new theme rightclickdesktop -> properties -> appearance I can no longer change the selected theme as the box and drop down is "greyed out" and locked for some reason However, i can change the color and font and effects and advanced. Unfortunately, without an external program like Tuneup Utilities 2009 i can not change my theme back to XP's Luna theme from classic any other way of my knowledge. So i have to run that program every time i restart if i want my theme back every time i get on my pc.
System Can't Restart - Turn Off
May 5, 2007I clean my computer with many programs and still doesn't turn off.here is my HJT.. I infected ??Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.Scan saved at 12:15:56 AM, on 5/5/2007
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Not Showing 2nd DVD Drive On Restart
Sep 11, 2006Im running XP SP2 and when i restart my pc my 2nd DVD drive does not show up in "my computer" but for some reason when i shut down the PC and then fire it back up there it is this something that can be fixed or am i going to have to shut down everything as opposed to restarting from now on?
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Mar 2, 2006I've seen a few threads about this but they're all kind of different or whatnot. My computer (three times tonight alone!) has just randomly re-started while I'm in the middle of work. When it comes back, it tells me that the system just recovered from a series error. When I report it, I'm taken to a Microsoft page about Windows Service Pack 2 and updating my driver. I've checked and I have SP2 and when I try to update the driver it tells me they couldn't find a better match than what I'm already using.
I've checked System Information and automatic restart isn't even checked yet this has happened a lot. Like I said, three times tonight it's happened. I've run my virus scanner, I've run Ad-aware SE Personal, SpySweeper, and Spybot and anything that comes back and is quarantined or deleted hasn't fixed the problem.