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Make sure a laptop never shuts down
I have a very strange problem.
When I shut down my laptop (frequently) I can't turn it up for a few days.
I'm 100% sure there is electricity and I've even opened my laptop to have a look inside.
I ...
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Schedule a task for all users on a computer
What I am trying to accomplish here is to shutdown a shared machine when it has been idle for 3 hours. I'm in a domain environment with partial admin privileges.
I logged on that machine with ...
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Disable automatic shutdown on low power Win 8.1
I've been having problems since I upgraded to Windows 8.1. My battery has been having issues as its getting old, and it always says its at 0%, while in fact I can still use it for about 2 hours.
This ...
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Windows 8 restart/shutdown gracefully
How do I restart/shutdown windows 8 gracefully?
Currently, when I restart it waits 5 sec, then kill everything, regarding nothing. I would like to do a graceful shutdown, such that when app requires a ...
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Can Googleupdate.exe cause delays when shutting down in Windows?
I have a computer running Windows XP which hangs in "windows is shutting down" for around two minutes. After running the Event Viewer, I've discovered that during this time, an error is recorded as a ...
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Installed seagate sshd(Solid State Hybrid Drive), did a reinstall, now the pc shuts down randomly
So yesterday i received my new Seagate SSHD(Solid State Hybrid Drive), i installed it in my acer aspire laptop, everything works just fine, but when i came home, restarted the pc, it still worked but ...
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How to create a script to disable the shutdown button on Windows 7
I want to create a script in command prompt that will permanently remove a user's right to shutdown a machine. I've done it before, but in Windows XP, and many years ago, and I think I did it in Group ...
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Windows couldn't shutdown, then It starts without aero
Yesterday I turned off my pc which has Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It didn't turn off so I forced it off as it was getting late. Now I turn it on to find out that stuff like windows aero didn't load. ...
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How can I make windows 8 shutdown automaticaly after a set amount of time?
Is there a way to set a timer that will automatically switch my laptop off after a given amount of time?
I like listening to music before bed and at the moment I need to get up to turn the laptop ...
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How to shutdown my laptop automatically if I'm away for 30 minutes [duplicate]
I'm using a Dell Inspiron N5110 running Windows 7. Please tell me how to shutdown my laptop automatically if I'm away from it for 30 minutes or more.
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Is it dangerous to use the windows' shutdown.exe command to turn off the computer?
I use this command in autoit to turn off my laptop, if a timer runs out
Run(@SystemDir & "\shutdown.exe /f /s /t 10", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)
It works fine most of the time, but occasionally I get ...
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Force shutdown of Windows VM via ACPI or script
At work we've got a Windows Server 2003 VM that we want to shut down when the host operating system (Linux) shuts down. We have this working except for when a user has logged in and locked the screen. ...
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Difference between software initiated shutdown and using the power button?
It's possible to shut down Windows by software, i.e. by clicking somewhere (Start button/Shutdown), or by using tools like shutdown.exe etc.
It's as well possible to shut down Windows by pressing the ...
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detecting if a Windows shutdown command has been issued
Is it possible to detect if the shutdown command has been issued (through the start menu by the user, or any other program running on the computer or having remote access to the computer), then cancel ...
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How to shut down windows closing applications automatically, but having the chance to save unsaved changes
When I shut down my PC I usually have roughly 50 application instances open with unsaved pending changes, and roughly 100-150 that can be closed immediately.
Before Windows 8 shutting down the PC ...
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