Windows Vista Cannot Shutdown Vista x64

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Hi, for the past couple of weeks I have been unable to shutdown my PC.

Pressing the soft shutdown button,starts the logging off....then
shutting down procedures as normal but although the screen powers off,
my pc continues to run and I have to press & hold the power off button
for the pc to stop running.
If I go into hibernation everything works fine and the machine does
indeed power off.
I have started up Vista Ultimate x 64 in safe mode (only Windows progs
running) and the same problem happens, so I assume it is nothing to do
with any of my installed software.
Any suggestions would be appreciated as I have tried all the threads on
most of the windows Web sites.:confused:


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Re: Cannot Shutdown Vista x64

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:08:07 -0500, motarola2
<guest@unknown-email.com> wrote:

>try running 'start up repair'
>(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html?ltr=S), it
>fixes some startup issues, some registry issues, etc.

You're a moron. From "Windows Help and How To":
http://tinyurl.com/63tony

Startup Repair is a Windows Vista recovery tool that can fix certain
problems, such as missing or damaged system files, that might prevent
Windows from STARTING CORRECTLY. When you run Startup Repair, it
scans your computer for the problem and then tries to fix it so your
computer CAN START CORRECTLY.

The OP is having problems SHUTTING DOWN.
 
Re: Cannot Shutdown Vista x64


Hi Motarola2.

Many thanks for the information you supplied.
Tried both of the suggestions,
Startup Repair ran fine and informed me that there were no problems and
I actually closed down the PC with the "soft" option.
Thinking this was now fine I rebooted and found that the original
problem happens.
Tried your second suggestion ( unplugging etc ) and again same problem.
I have to add that over the same period of time I have had other
niggling problems .. Windows Defender fails to put an icon in the system
tray until I manually open Defender.
There are 2/3 other icons that fail to appear until I manually stat
them although they are set to start automatically, not sure if they are
related, maybe you have another suggestion I could try?
All these problems occurred about the same time(all ran well before)
I have not added any new Software/Hardware and have disabled all my
anti-virus and malware programs but it makes no difference.

Again many thanks for you help, it is appreciated.

Regards
JJF1312


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