Shutdown causes Restart

WinMe is the only version of Windows I haven't had to support yet, so this may not address the problem, but here goes...

When you select Start/Shutdown, the pop-up dialog that appears may have 'restart' selected as the default instead of 'shut down'. I have several users who reported this behavior and in each case they were simply clicking OK without verifying that the proper option was selected (all Win98).
I hope it's this simple.

In some versions of Windows it is possible to prevent a user from shutting down a computer via User Permissions; this may have been added to the Me version, though it seems unlikely. If you have several users, each with their own logons, you might have such a restriction.

Another tack to try is to shut down through the Task Manager; press Ctrl-Alt-Del once, then click on 'Shutdown" to test it.

There was a similar bug in Win98. MS addressed this with a fix. It could be that ME doesn't like your motherboard. Just shootin in the dark. HTH

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