You could change the setting on what happens when you close the lid. Or give
the laptop more time to get further into the shutdown before closing the
lid.
Have you thought about using Hibernate instead of shutdown?
"NickH" <NickH@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> If I press the power button on my laptop to start shutdown, and then close
> the lid, Vista will ignore the fact that it's shutting down and go to
> Sleep.
> Then when I open the lid later, it wakes up and finishes shutting down!
> Has
> anybody else noticed this? It would be much better if it just carried on
> shutting down.
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