Option Of Hibernating On Shutdown
Nov 22, 2009
After fighting with a sequence of problems seemingly caused by malware, I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled XP. Now Laptop will no longer give me the option of Hibernating on Shutdown. When I entered "POWERCFG /HIBERNATE/ ON" it tells me SYSTEM DOES NOT SUPPORT HIBERNATION! It did before the reinstall. It wouldn't be a BFD if I didn't run my HP pavilion only on batteries. It was very convenient to hibernate when one battery ran down, while I put the other one in. (Why do I only run on batteries? -- after spending $$$ to replace the HP DC jack, I decided not to do it again when the new one failed --- no I didn't ever yank the cord out and no one else uses the machine.)
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Dec 22, 2006
On one of the Notebook PC's I manage I'm seeing a prompt that I've never seen before. When I click START / TURN OFF COMPUTER - the standard dialog with STANDBY / TURN OFF / RESTART comes up, but at the bottom of that dialog it reads "turn off computer WITHOUT installing updates. there are updates downloaded - wanting to be installed. I am unable to figure out how to see a list of these updates so I can pick and choose which ones to let install.
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Nov 7, 2007
A few days ago the Shutdown option at the bottom of the start menu has disappeared and from the Ctrl+Alt+Delete also.I have scanned the computer with Avira antivirus, free version, and super antispyware. Lots of things were deleted, but the shutdown option is still missing. I have not been able to shut my laptop down for two days.
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Aug 7, 2007
When my laptop gets to the point in XP where you can select user and put in a password, There are no users to select from. the only option given is to shutdown, reboot etc.
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Jan 28, 2006
I need a little favor, recently I've just discovered by accident that my Dell PC couldn't go into Standby Mode (nor Hibernate), everything froze, my mouse pointer wouldn't move and my keyboard was sort of "dead," like the system froze (on the "Preparing to Standby/Hibernate" screen) or something like that.I did a search on Google as well as this forum, all fetched me different solutions, I've tried quite a few but nothing seems to work I've a Dell Dimension 5150, here are the specs, my HD is 80GB instead of 160.. Running on Windows XP Home Edition.
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Jul 7, 2005
is there a way for Windows XP to go into hybernation and then when remoting into the computer, it awakes?
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Nov 2, 2007
Got an XP S2, with 256M of RAM, 2 hard disks of 40 meg each. For over 2 years, I've had it set to "When I press Power Button, go to Hibernate." Worked great, avoiding godawful long reboots.I rebooted when updating or installing, and very infrequently, when things choked up the machine.Nothing else is wrong I've run a couple of virus checkers, a couple of Register cleaners, and some clean-up disk utilities. Nothing negative, but no effect whatsoever.
I've gone into Power Settings from Control Panel. Several times I took it out of the Hibernate instruction, rebooted, and put in back into Hibernate mode. No luck.I did the same thing, only setting it to Total Off, to Restart, to Ask Me What to Do, and to Go to Standby. After power off, reboot, and later reset to Hibernate, no luck. It continues to "UnHibernate" after a minute or two of darkness & inactivity, when it's supposed to be hibernating.
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Aug 10, 2006
I use Windows XP SP2. Recently noticed that when I left-click on any of the icons of the Hard-disk drives and/or Devices with Removable Storage within 'My Computer', the 'Search' Option opens up by default instead of the 'Open' option, like in other folders. Likewise, when I right-click on the said icons, the 'Search' option is topmost & the 'Open' option has been relegated to second position. I would like the Search option to come first. Can't remember whether this was so from before or changed recently.
I have used Norton Partition Magic 8 recently to resize my partitions.
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Aug 3, 2010
i remote into my XP box everything is fine except when i shut down using a shutdown shortcut and other shutdown utilities no matter what after i get booted off the remote session the computer looks like its shutting down then stays on for a few seconds then a BSOD appear. I have been trying to figure out why for the past week and no solution so im hoping someone can chime in..The problem is only on remote if i shut down locally never a single BSOD and no hardware has changed. No driver issues. ive read and tried all the usual solutions. Need someone here to chime in on specifics.Ive also tried to remote in with bare minimum and no go. same thing.
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Aug 28, 2003
This is weird. I have to go through the shutdown procedure twice, i.e., Start/Shut Down/Shut Down and click Ok, then Start/Shut Down/Shut Down and click Ok again. It will then shutdown properly. The same thing happens when I try to "Restart." After doing the first shutdown sequence, everything is normal. I can open programs, surf the web, etc. It's as if I never tried to shut it down at all. Only after the second shutdown procedure will it shutdown fully. One note: When I go through the first shutdown sequence, my taskbar pops up and the desktop is darkened. After clicking Ok, the taskbar autohides and my desktop returns to its normal color.I have only had this problem for the last month or two. Before that, all was fine. It's not critical since I can shut it down. It's just annoying to have to do it twice.I have Windows 2000 Pro, SP4, build 5.00.2195.
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Jun 13, 2005
When attempting to "shutdown" or "reboot", I have to do it twice. When I select "Start" then either shutdown or reboot, my desktop will flicker a couple of times, and then nothing appears to happen. I must select "start" again and then either shutdown or reboot and then they will work as expected.
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Nov 30, 2007
I recently reloaded windows XP and there is no button on the Start Menu to allow me to log out and swap to another user.
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Jul 27, 2005
I had a liitle problem with XP PC connected to Win2003 server standard edition. A user can log on successfully to a workstation, but when they tried to shutdown the PC, they only found an option to log off the Windows (no shutdown, no stand-by options) - but if an admin login on the same workstation, the shutdown options surely will come up
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Jul 31, 2009
When I shut the system down and box pops up and says rundll32.exe has encountered an error and it ask's me to 'end now' or 'exit'. If I 'exit' nothing will happen and the system will not shut down so I have to select 'end now'.
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Aug 9, 2005
Every time I start up windows cmd.exe opens up and the command to shut down is made and it shuts down. I have temporarily solved this problem by renaming cmd.exe just to another name of cmg.exe so that it cannot be opened but I do run batch programs so have to keep changing the name when required. Any suggestions would be helpful as to sort this out.
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Jul 10, 2010
Don't see where to shutdown Windows Messenger on WIndows XP (Adobe Flash uninstall requires it).Nothing appears in the Task Tray. Where do I look?
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Oct 5, 2007
for quite awhile now both my computers but they seem to work pretty good although alittle slow. but when you go to shut them down, both of them a box comes up and says ending program where you can wait for it to end the program or you can click on end now. well it doesn't matter which you do most of the time the computer won't shut down. it just keeps going back to the end program box. It is always this program--iexplore.exe always that one. One time I looked into the task manager and it had like 5 or 6 of the iexplore.exe in the application part. anyway it is getting quite annoying. I ran asquared when this was happening and it caught what it said was a trojan (didn't write it down) I deleted it and it seemed to work for awhile. But now it is back to the same ole thing. Can someone enlighten me on what might be wrong? It is on both of my computers.
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Oct 5, 2007
for quite awhile now both my computers but they seem to work pretty good although alittle slow. but when you go to shut them down, both of them a box comes up and says ending program where you can wait for it to end the program or you can click on end now. well it doesn't matter which you do most of the time the computer won't shut down. it just keeps going back to the end program box. It is always this program--iexplore.exe always that one. One time I looked into the task manager and it had like 5 or 6 of the iexplore.exe in the application part. anyway it is getting quite annoying. I ran asquared when this was happening and it caught what it said was a trojan (didn't write it down) I deleted it and it seemed to work for awhile. But now it is back to the same ole thing. Can someone enlighten me on what might be wrong? It is on both of my computers.
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Aug 19, 2005
Is there any native way to automatically run a command such as a batch file at shutdown?
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Apr 17, 2005
I can not shutdown my pc automatic(manual only)?
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May 2, 2005
I keep getting the NT Authority shutdown every now and again (maybe every three days or so), but I do not have any viruses, worms, trojans, etc, that I can find. Secondly, when I reboot the pc it comes to the wallpaper but wont go any further, I have to reboot three times or more before it works. the pc keeps dropping the broadband connection, then immediately saying it cant reconnect as the modem is in use, and I have to reboot before I can connect again. I cant find how the modem is in use. Also, random programs tend to crash now and again, and when I click to submit the report and get more information, it tells me microsoft cannot determine the cause of the crash. It isnt any particular program or any particular task/time.
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Oct 17, 2006
My computer stops responding at "Windows is shutting down" so i have to shut it off manually which also means it will not reboot automatically which means I have not been able to do a restore. Any help!
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Apr 17, 2007
My PC won't shutdown through Windows (nor will it 'Restart' through Windows).
I'm suspecting that it's some sort of dll error
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May 1, 2007
I am not totally sure this is an XP issue or a laptop issue. At my workplace we have about 25 laptops that all go home for the evenings with the users. The users who go home and connect to their routers they given at IP (DHCP) and everything is fine. When they shutdown the laptop and bring it to work the next morning the laptop acts as if it never left the previous network and tried to keep the same IP, causing conflicts on our network. If you disconnect from the network at home, shutdown, then come to work it works fine
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Sep 6, 2010
i try to shutdown my system.turned off but keeps restarting.my system details:
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Jun 25, 2005
I took a machine that had Win9x installed, replaced it with XP Pro and now it won't shutdown automatically. I comes up with the old "It is now safe to turn of your computer" message.
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Apr 28, 2010
I have xp home on a compaq presario x1000. I've been cleaning, dumping, fixing things on it lately, and all is well, except for the start-up and shut-down times. When shutting down, it takes apprx. five minutes from start>turn off computer until the shut down/re-start menu appears.
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Oct 13, 2006
When I go to shut down my computer, it freezes.Two ways to reproduce it, first is to click start -> shut down -> freeze.Second is ctrl+alt+del -> shut down -> freeze I can't undo.I can undo the freeze if I use the start menu, by hitting ctrl+shift+esc and then ending explorer, and restarting it. But I still can't shutdown safely. If I try to shut down with ctrl+alt+del I get a freeze I can't get out of.First thing I checked was my virus scan, and ad-aware, made sure they were both up to date, and ran them both. Defragmented my computer also.One thing about it, it doesn't happen all the time. Only if I have been running the computer for more then 20 minutes or so. That caused me to take a screen shot of task manager, and then when shutting down at then end, compare the two. The only thing that had changed was one more instance of svchost.exe and because I have it show PID I knew which one was the new one, and ended it. Windows still didn't shut down.Another thing is, I can log off by using ctrl+alt+del and then log off. It's just when ever I hit shut down, either in start menu, or in windows security, it freezes before it can bring up the menu to pick which shutdown option I want.This is really bothering me, as it's not good to just pull the plug every night when I need to go to bed, so I'm trying to figure out how to fix it, without any luck so far.
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Jul 30, 2007
For the past few days my pc has been shutting down on me after every boot. It happens about 5 minutes after each reboot. I was searching through the forum and i found the exact same problem,http://forums.techguy.org/security/5...atus-code.html .but im not sure if i am to follow the same procedures as i have a different pc.
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Mar 13, 2006
As you all probably know, you can create a shortcut that will automatically shut down your PC, by creating a desktop shortcut of C:WindowsSystem32Shutdown.exe. There is a catch: if you accidentally press it, there is no convenient way to stop the shutdown sequence. (you can create a CANCEL SHUTDOWN shortcut, and have the shudown shortcut have a delay (-t 10, for example), but that is cumbersome, and will take up even more desktop real estate.)So i had this idea for a solution. I tried creating a keyboard shortcut for the shutdown shortcut (and was going to do the same for the Cancel Shutdown Shortcut). And, it worked fine. The point was that I could get rid of the little shutdown shortcut icon from my desktop. So, I moved it to a file in My Documents, so it would still be available, just not sitting on the desktop. (Note: I even repeated the above process, starting in another folder, instead of starting at the desktop and the following problems still occurred)
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Oct 13, 2009
I would say about half a dozen times in the past few weeks when I tried to turn off my pc the computer rebooted and I had to tell it to shut down again. It always shut down on the second try.I did install an ATI graphics card recently, could that have something to do with it?Like I said it has only happened a few times so it's not that big of a deal, just kind of annoying. Anyone dealt with this before?
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