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I am running Windows 2000. I go through the proper shutdown procedure and everything goes smoothly, except the machine will not turn off. It gives me the message:”It is now safe to turn off your computer”, but when i press the power off button it will not turn off. I then wait and see if it turns off on it’s own and still nothing. Let me Know!!!!

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Depending on the age of the machine its a support issue with APM (advanced power management). On the Power applet in the control panel and place a check box by APM Compatability.
Shutdown and see what happens. If you box is not fully compatableyou probably will get a blue screen. Reboot and uncheck it if that happens.
As for turning it off at that screen, you need to HOLD the power button in for 5 seconds (sometimes a couple seconds more)

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Try holding that power button down for about 10 seconds. If that works then you might want to try one more thing that makes life easier. You can make a change to the registry to make your computer turn off and power down completely instead of giving you that “It is now safe to turn off your computer” screen.

Two things control a full shutdown, a registry entry and automatic power management (at least APM 1.1).

Edit the registry by using Regedit.exe. Drill down to
HK Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
and edit the PownAfterShutdown string to have a value of 1 (if this string does not exist then you need to add it).

Next go to the Control Panel and select Power Options and then select the PowerTab
and then make sure that
Enable Advanced Power Management support
is checked. Reboot your PC.

I used this solution to solve the same problem on my own computer. If you want more info go to

http://www.9-muses.com/freak/viewpoint/nt/making_nt_fun/ soft-power-down.shtml.

I didn’t make the hal.dll change that the web site talks about but that seems to be an issue only if you have older than Win NT SP4 as your OS.

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I apologize to those that were rejected. It was an error on my part. Your advice was very helpful and resolved my problem.

Thank You.

Henry

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