Vista Not Shutting Down

Mr.Orb · 28 Mar 2008 at 20:26

I seem to be having a small problem with a Dell Inspiron 1525 running Vista.
When ever you tell the computer to shut down it just restarts, it takes a few trys to actually get it to shut down.

Has anyone heard of this problem before?

Thanks!

HarryPainful · 28 Mar 2008 at 20:55

Check in the power setting that its set to shut down when told to.

Rainmaker · 28 Mar 2008 at 20:58

As Harry said - sounds like you've not changed the default setting. The power button in Vista can be set to sleep, hybrid sleep, hibernate, power off... Just check the power management settings (click advanced and scroll down the list).

Pulse · 28 Mar 2008 at 21:23

I had a similar problem after installing SP1. If you have recently installed SP1 then while its loading keep tapping F8 to get up the Windows load menu, go into safe mode, then shut down from there. Start up and try it normally.

If this is not an affect of a recent SP1 install, I have no idea