Windows vista keeps restating when I shut down changing power settings does not help.

Windows XP:

By default, all laptops either go on standby or turn off to save precious battery, but you can override these rules from the Power Options (XP) in your control panel (Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Power Options) and click on Advanced Tab and override the settings according to your preference.

I prefer "Do nothing" while closing the lid. Although this is real simple, few of us might not know it. I

Windows Vista/7:

How to Stop Laptop/Notebook Goes To Sleep or Hibernation when Closing Lid in Windows Vista

1. Log on to your computer as an administrator. Click on Start, go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Power Options.
2. Click on Change plan settings for the currently active plan.
3. Click on Change advanced power settings link.
4. In the "Power Options" dialog box's "Advanced Settings" tab for the active power plan, expand Power buttons and lid.
5. Expand Lid close action.
6. Change the value to Do nothing for "Lid close action" by selecting a new option from drop down menu for both On battery and Plugged in. Based on own preference, it's possible to set other action from the menu too. Available for selection is Do nothing, Sleep, Hibernate and Shutdown.
   
7. Click OK button.

Sounds like the unit could be over heating, or the laptop video memory is not strong enough to run vista with its full graphics. For the over heating issue try cleaning out the air vents with some compressed air and making sure your not placing the laptop on its belly completely, and use the legs to let air flow beneath the machine. For the Video Graphics, once Vista is up, go into the Video Settings or Perfomance of the machine. Best way to get to this Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, clicking Personalization, and then clicking Theme.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-Windows-to-Classic-view is the link for it.

DrakeTech

Sounds like ou might have the Computer set to either Hib ernate or Standby.

Go into the settings and disable them so as to NOT have Hibernate or Standby.

My wife's Laptop has this problem, and we found that just shutting it down when you don't need it, when on battery this is, is the simplest and easiest way.
On power it doesn't matter, just close the lid is all that is needed.

Ive seen this happen B4..

try holding the power button in..

If your useing the power button every time, it could be sticking,, Or you have it setup to restat when the power button is pushed.

If button is ok and power setting are set right then its *********** board

I assume you use Windows Vista.....
In vista the default action of the power button is configured to sleep mode..
So to shutdown the PC you can press "Start - right arrow - right arrow - right arrow - Enter", or you can navigate to the same using the mouse & selecting shutdown from the list besides the lock icon.
You can also change the power button configuration this way goto " Start-Control Panel-System and Maintenance-Power options-change plan settings (under the current plan you are using) - change advanced power settings - Power buttons and lid - Start menu power button" click on settings and select shutdown, apply & save the settings and close this window.
Now you can just click the power button to shutdown your computer.

What do you mean by "LOOPING"

Also have you tried to shut down auto updates to stop this problem them go and manually update yourself picking a few updates at a time, allowing them to install then rebooting the machine to make sure you dont have any issues?

You can get to windows update by click on your start button then on Windows Update Icon.

Myself as a tech Ive never allow windows to do auto updates as there is usually a glitch of some sort that happens. That is a lot of changes to a machine at any one given time.

Hope this helps you and others!

Is it possible that you have changed the settings of what buttons do what on your system? E.g. you could have changed the power button to "switch user" instead of "shut down", to check this (in XP) go to "Power Options" (in Control Panel" and then click on the "Advanced tab" at the top, then select "Shut down" from the drop down menu at the bottom of the window.

If this is already set to shut down then maybe you could do a system restore in case another setting has been changed, restore it to before the PC started doing this.

Alternatively try actually choosing "Turn off Computer" from the Log On screen (press Ctrl + L to get to this screen, or choose switch user/log off). If you are using Vista I beleive that there is a shut-down option from the Log In Page there (which again you can access by pressing Ctrl + L on the keyboard.

Hope this helps!

Hello Goober....
Sure , You can change the settings here:

Click on Start (bottom Left corner of screen)
then...
Click On Control Panel
then...
Click on Power ..or "Power Options"(the icon for power settings)
then..
look there for what is Checked and Unchecked.... (in windows vista- you will have to first click on.. "change plan settings")
Once there.. You can change how your hard drive Runs... in Windows XP you just set the hard drive to .. NEVER... or you can simply set it to shut off after 30 minutes or an hour...
In windows Vista, to set the Hard Drive settings you will first need to click on...Change Advanced Hardware Settings...
Then Choose Hard Disk...then edit the settings there...


Hope it Helps... Happy Computing
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Windows Vista doesn't shut down the machine by default when you press the power button. Additionally, if you look at the bottom of the start menu you'll see this:



The button on the left, highlighted here in bronze, does NOT turn the machine off in Windows - it suspends it, which requires power. When the battery runs down, the power goes out and you get this message the next time you start up.

Some laptops also indicate suspend mode by flashing the power light.

Happily, if you click on the little right facing arrow a menu pops up, one of the options of which is "Shut down" and this will bring Windows down properly and fully.

You can also change the function of the power switch (which defaults to suspend, NOT shut down) by going into the power options from Control Panel:



Selecting one of the above options will allow you to set the power button and closing the lid to turn the machine off fully, not suspend it.