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Faster shutdown or restart than holding the power button and its drawbacks
I am looking for a way how to turn off a laptop with Windows 7 very fast.
Fastest way I know of is holding power button for 5 seconds. It is unsatisfying because it is long time and because I need to ...
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How to see what's going on during Windows shutdown/logging off process? [duplicate]
Windows 7 msconfig lets users select the options No GUI boot and OS boot information to have a list of drivers being loaded during boot. Is it possible to have similar detailed messages during ...
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Weird behavior on reboot and shut down
Ever since I bought my new machine I have this really weird behavior on reboot and shut down:
When I invoke a shut down, the system will shut down just fine, but the hardware stays on. I have to hold ...
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On start up only launch one program and shut down on exit
OS - Windows 7 Professional.
I have a requirement to install software on a computer which will launch automatically on startup and shutdown the computer on exit. Both of which I can do using Windows ...
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Windows 7 taking too much time for shutting down?
I have a PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 installed in it. My PC has a Pentium dual core processor and 2 GB RAM.
Both OS are working without any problems. But when it comes to the case of shut down,...
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Alt+F4 not showing 'Shut Down' in HP G62
I have a HP G62 notebook which runs on Windows 7 Home Premiun 64 bit. I commonly use Alt+F4 to shut down most of the Windows systems I use. But Alt+F4 is not showing a window to shut down my HP. Why ...
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Windows 8 remote shutdown
I have two PC with Windows 8 with the same account name, same group, and with no password
to manage them.
I can access, for example, from one PC to another without problem
to manage remote files and ...
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What's the "System" process on Windows and how to restart it if suspended?
Yesterday, I entered the "Resource Monitor" (using the command "perfmon.exe /res") on Windows 7 in order to check out what process was using my external hard drive, since I wasn't able to remove it ...
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How to prevent remote users from shutting down/rebooting the Windows? [duplicate]
Is it there any way to prevent remote users from shutting down/rebooting the Windows.
follows these steps:
Unfortunately, I cannot disable remote access to my computer. Is there a way to prevent ...
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Is it there any way to prevent alt+f4 shutdown in windows
I face the problem of my coworker often shutdowns by simply pressing alt+f4 often he shut downs it. Is it there any way to stop this kind of activities in order to prevent accidental shutdown?
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My colleague often shuts down my machine through the LAN - how do I prevent it?
This might sound weird. My colleague and I were working on a Windows machine. He frequently shuts it down through the LAN.
He usually follows these steps:
Access command prompt, enter shutdown -i.
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Windows update stuck, no error code, no time out...
Fresh install of Windows7, i think the only things installed so far are the nvidia drivers, windows essential AV, and some other device drivers such as wifi.
There are tons of updates. it downloads ...
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How to shutdown the computer when a USB is attached? [duplicate]
I want to perform one security mechanism, but I don't know whether it is possible.
I want to Shutdown/Turn Off PC/System when any USB device attach to it.
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Windows is waiting some programs to close
I'm using windows 8.1 64bit and something just happend.
When I try to shut my pc down, it says that a specific program is running, and it wont shut down. The problem is that I don't want that program ...
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Why does single user Windows XP machine say "Other users are logged in" at shutdown?
My mother runs Windows XP on her computer. Apparently randomly, on shutdown the machine will report that other users are logged on and proceeding may cause them to lose data. As a non-expert, this ...
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