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View Full Version : Another oddity for Win2K Manu 10-10-2001, 06:25 PM In 98/98se my computer always would power off when I shut down... In Win2K it goes to a 'it is now safe to shutdown your computer' screen. Does my hardware just not support autoshutdown in win2k, or is there some setting I am missing? ------------------ Manu Narayan slayr420 10-10-2001, 06:55 PM Shutdown Setting HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer look at REG_DWORD I believe that the value was somehow set to 0x1, change that to 0x2. From what I know... 0x1 Log off - computer running on full power. 0x2 Shut down. power turned off safely. 0x4 Restart. shuts down Windows 2000 and starts it again. 0x10 Stand by - with LAN/Modem wakeup 0x20 Stand by - with no wakeup other than user response 0x40 Hibernate - duh, saves all info to hard disk, and returns to save session from next bootup 0x80 Disconnect - returns to user login screen. [This message has been edited by slayr420 (edited 10-10-2001).] Manu 10-11-2001, 12:14 PM Thanks much, will try this at home tonight. ------------------ Manu Narayan JoeyNormal 10-15-2001, 05:46 AM Hmmm, is it fixed? If not, do other NT based OS's run well? If not it'll be one of the many bugs in NT's code, I'd guess. ------------------ Freedom, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Accountability, surely not too much to ask? FREE MUMIA Manu 10-15-2001, 11:57 AM Nope, not fixed... I haven't tried another NT based OS on this box. I am going to be upgrading soon anyways, so it doen'st matter. ------------------ Manu Narayan JoeyNormal 10-15-2001, 04:57 PM To XP? It's just that if I recall, it is based on NT, so you may have the same problem. I suggest, if you intend to buy it, to either test it with a perated copy, or borrow/acquire a copy of an older NT system, as you may have similar problems. ------------------ Freedom, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Accountability, surely not too much to ask? FREE MUMIA Manu 10-15-2001, 06:08 PM Oh, upgrade i meant hardware. :-) For the record though, XP is a SWEET OS. We run it on 4-5 computers at work, and they run very strong, with no crashes. We have a machine thats been up for 1 month striaght, no crash. ------------------ Manu Narayan JoeyNormal 10-15-2001, 07:44 PM Oh cool, same, and I'm probably going to, ah, acquire XP as well http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif ------------------ Freedom, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Accountability, surely not too much to ask? FREE MUMIA ChaoticThoughts 10-17-2001, 03:51 AM You could make it hibernate...it shuts down the computer for you. But I have a multi-boot, so I don't do that, because It starts back on win2k when its turned back on. |