I’m on holidays at the moment, and I’ve noticed that my mum’s computer will not shut down by itself.
When I try to shut down the computer, it closes all the applications and processes, and then goes to the blank windows screen, and says “Windows is shutting down.” or something like that. The problem is, I’ve left the computer like this for over 8 hours, twice, and around 30 mins or so many more times, nothing happens, it just sits there until you cut the power, or hold in the power button for a good 3-4 seconds.
This doesn’t worry me that much, but my mum is corcerned that having to manualy turn it off every time might be bad for the computer.
What DOES concern me, is that the computer recently had a windows update done on it, and every time I view the shut down / restart menu, the shut down button has a little shield icon on it and says “1 update waiting to install” or something. When I choose shut down, it says please wait, installing update, and then after a few seconds that finishes (presumably) and it says Windows is shutting down, but once again, nothing happens till you restart it, and when you get back into windows the update is still there, waiting to install.
So, firstly I need to know how to get the damn thing to put itself to sleep, and secondly if there is any way to have the update work possibly using some different method, help would be greatly appreciated.
just as an after thought……
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (CPU)
512MB RAM (no idea what type, probably 333 mhz)
Western Digital 80GB hard drive (normal IDE, not SATA)
GeCube Radeon 9600 SE gfx card
Onboard sound….. C-Media AC97