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ASUS N56VM-AB71 laptop suddenly shuts down on battery
Caveat: I know an ASUS N56VM-AB71 is a 10 year old laptop, and it was only mid-range in the first place, but aside from this issue it works remarkably well and I can still even play games on it (no ...
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How to stop or remove a file in windows startup folder under 10 seconds
I had an app call shutdown.exe that can shut down my computers.
It just an app that will shut down my computer with the specific time, i set to 10 seconds, it just very fine until yesterday, i ...
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How do I find who shut down a computer remotely?
Recently, someone at my high school used the command prompt trick where you type: shutdown -i and enter the computers you want to remotely turn off.
Is there a way I could/could have found the ...
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Is there any way to tell Windows to hibernate, and then reboot, not hibernate, then shut down?
Is there any way to tell Windows to hibernate, and then reboot, not hibernate, then shut down?
Why do I want it. I have dual boot ubuntu18.04/win7 on a 2008-year machine. Windows runs rather slow ...
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Windows 7 auto shutdown after certain period of inactivity
Is there any solution for auto shutting down Win 7 PC? Many colleagues in our company leave their desktops turned on after leaving job, so we would like to shut them down after certain period of ...
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Windows updates: Restart instead of the requested Shutdown?
I often hibernate my laptop. Sometimes, I see the Hibernate button turn yellow and show "Shutdown!", which means that there are important updates that will be installed. I then initiate a lengthy ...
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my computer just shuts down randomly
i have a windows 7 32 bit machine (running on a compaq615)
it used to work great but now it just shuts down even i the easiest tasks
i tried switching to windows 10 pro 64 bit it works but still ...
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Diagnosing desktop computer that unexpectedly shuts down - not overheating
Today my office desktop computer (which is also the main network machine) shut down unexpectedly while exporting a very large data file - the other computers in the network were already off. The ...
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Which computer needs SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege to shut down a remote system?
Say, if I want to shut down a remote computer 2 from my computer 1 using a tool like shutdown.exe. I keep reading that this requires SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege. What I am not clear about is which ...
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Windows 7 Ultimate: replace “Hibernate after” with “Shutdown after”
Sometimes I put my laptop to sleep (suspend to RAM, not hibernate), but could happen that I don’t reactivate it for days: in such case, despite the fact that the sleep state consume little percentage ...
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Turn on laptop with a mouse or keyboard
I have a laptop MSI GT70 2PC Dominator. How to setup this to be able to turn on with a external mouse or keyboard (USB connected)?
These are my BIOS settings.
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Is there anyway to know if my windows 7 was shutdown by the normal Menu or the shutdown command?
Is there anyway to know if in some specific day a Windows 7 computer was shutdown using the normal "Windows button > Click Shutdown" or using the shutdown /s /t (seconds) from the command line?
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Windows running 24/7: logged in vs logged off
There are lots of discussions about leaving PC running 24/7 or shutting it down from time to time. This is not what my question is about. My question is about running Windows 24/7, but wondering if it ...
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Windows 7 shuts down automatically after 3-5 minutes unless I wait 3-5 minutes before login
I've tried to:
Disable all services/startup programs in msconfig (including microsoft ones)
Check the disk for errors
Starting up in safe mode (works just fine)
Event Viewer (no description of the ...
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Task Scheduler not excuting task
I made a batch file that creates an auto shutdown task in taskschd.msc which is supposed to shutdown the computer at a certain hour each day.
The said batch:
@echo off
SCHTASKS /Create /SC DAILY /TN ...
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