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Windows XP doesn’t shutdown
I cannot shutdown my computer: when I normally press the buttons shutdown, restart, standby nothing happens.
All the applications are actually closed and I've not done any particular thing with my ...
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Proper application shutdown before windows xp auto shutdown
I frequently leave the computer on playing a movie or downloading a file while I go to bed. I do use the 'shutdown computer when finished' feature of KMPlayer or getright or uTorrent or whatever ...
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MediaContextNotificatioNWindow Error Occurs When Trying to Shutdown Windows XP
I am working with a Windows XP laptop that whenever it is shutdown will display a warning that the "MediaContextNotificationWindow" is attempting to close, eventually requiring you to force it to ...
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What's an easy way to shut down a computer that I'm connected to via RDP
I have a secondary machine on my local network that I usually use via RDP. Most of the time, it's on 24/7, but there are times when I may want to shut it down from the RDP client machine. The ...
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Remote machine running XP won't shutdown, which processes should I kill and in what order?
Unable to restart or shutdown remote Windows XP using psshutdown or psexec/shutdown. I tried shutdown -s -t 0, but this failed. Pulling the power isn't an option as no one at machine to do this.
I'm ...
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How can I disable Windows XP shutdown while still allowing log out/restart?
I want to disable the "shut down" option on a Windows XP machine whose case and power button is not easily accessible. Users must still be able to restart and logout, but not shut down.
Is this ...
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Auto Shutdown, after giving cancel option to user
I would like to setup a script or a tool on some computers for automatic shutdown, at a given time, say late in the night, when users have left for the day (forgetting to shutdown the computer). It ...
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scheduled task shutdown on XP
I'm attempting to use a scheduled task to shut down my win XP PC. I get the error: Task Scheduler Error 0x80070005: Access is denied. I'm logged in with administrative privileges but am unsure why the ...
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How does XP Windows Updater work during shutdown?
On XP when Windows updates are ready to install, they run in a special UI during the shutdown process after all users have logged-out.
How is this achieved?
Does the CSRSS or other windows ...
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Windows won't shut down because it's waiting for Windows Explorer, which is not responding
I've seen this on every Windows PC I've owned in the last 6 or 7 years (that's about 5 or 6 PCs).
I've seen it on Windows XP mostly, but also occasionally on our Windows 7 PC.
Symptom is that you go ...
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Windows XP SP3 will not go into standby when Magic Jack is running
When I select Start->Turn off computer->Standby the 'turn off computer' option window closes, and then nothing else happens. I can start new applications, and Windows acts like I never selected ...
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Defrag during/"after" shutdown?
I use PageDefrag to keep my page-file healthy, and have it set to run at every boot with a 1sec timeout. I think it would be really handy to be able to defrag the rest of my machine every-time I tell ...
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How can I troubleshoot a computer that won't shutdown?
One of my parents work computers running Windows XP won't shutdown properly.
The computer is shutdown normally through the Start menu, but hangs on a system message. This problem occurs at every ...
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DWwin.exe DLL Initialization Failed during shutdown
I'm getting an error whenever I shut down the computer:
dwwin.exe - DLL Initialization Failed
The application failed to initialize because the window station is shutting down.
A quick search ...
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Run shutdown script as Administrator on Windows XP
I've written a script using Ninite Pro to update the installed Applications on the Windows XP pro Client.
Unfortunately it has no administrator privileges, is there a way to run a shutdown script as ...
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