Vista - shuting down

my computer fails to shut totaly down after asking with the command. My HD's
and sreen shut down but he doesn't shut totally down, there stay allway's
somtheing running. In XP we had to change in the register
PowerDownAfterShutdown, but in this OS I can not find it in the registry.
Do you have an answer? Thanks

The power button on the start menu does not shut the computer down, it puts
the computer into sleep (standby/hibernate hybrid). Vista also may have
changed the default for the power button on the computer, as well. Is this
the issue?


"DirkR" <DirkR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0CF16153-6D45-4420-9EE6-38DCA9C40F49@microsoft.com...
> my computer fails to shut totaly down after asking with the command. My
> HD's
> and sreen shut down but he doesn't shut totally down, there stay allway's
> somtheing running. In XP we had to change in the register
> PowerDownAfterShutdown, but in this OS I can not find it in the registry.
> Do you have an answer? Thanks
>

i saw on my vista(bata2) a possibility to shut the computer totally down. It
has also worked, but after a certain time (+/- 1 month). it stopt with
working.
I am very happy that you toke the time to respond but i guess that the
reason is not this.

"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:

> The power button on the start menu does not shut the computer down, it puts
> the computer into sleep (standby/hibernate hybrid). Vista also may have
> changed the default for the power button on the computer, as well. Is this
> the issue?
>
>
> "DirkR" <DirkR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0CF16153-6D45-4420-9EE6-38DCA9C40F49@microsoft.com...
> > my computer fails to shut totaly down after asking with the command. My
> > HD's
> > and sreen shut down but he doesn't shut totally down, there stay allway's
> > somtheing running. In XP we had to change in the register
> > PowerDownAfterShutdown, but in this OS I can not find it in the registry.
> > Do you have an answer? Thanks
> >
>
>
>

I'll take another try at it.

Is there the possibility that either an open application or a hardware
driver is not closing properly and causing the system to "hang" at shut
down?

"DirkR" <DirkR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:921F74E5-1D34-42FB-B208-B9E297829AF1@microsoft.com...
>i saw on my vista(bata2) a possibility to shut the computer totally down.
>It
> has also worked, but after a certain time (+/- 1 month). it stopt with
> working.
> I am very happy that you toke the time to respond but i guess that the
> reason is not this.
>
> "Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:
>
>> The power button on the start menu does not shut the computer down, it
>> puts
>> the computer into sleep (standby/hibernate hybrid). Vista also may have
>> changed the default for the power button on the computer, as well. Is
>> this
>> the issue?
>>
>>
>> "DirkR" <DirkR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0CF16153-6D45-4420-9EE6-38DCA9C40F49@microsoft.com...
>> > my computer fails to shut totaly down after asking with the command. My
>> > HD's
>> > and sreen shut down but he doesn't shut totally down, there stay
>> > allway's
>> > somtheing running. In XP we had to change in the register
>> > PowerDownAfterShutdown, but in this OS I can not find it in the
>> > registry.
>> > Do you have an answer? Thanks
>> >
>>
>>
>>