My laptop keeps turning back on after i shutdown

swtchick87

Hey all, im having a problem with my laptop. When i use it, and then shutdown, it turns itself back on again. I tried to keep shuting down but the same problem kept happening. Eventually i had to take the battery out. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

westferret

Are you on vista? If so are you pressing the thing that looks like a power power on the start menu but actually restarts your comp. If so there's an arrow to the right of it that's got shut down in there when you click on it.

(as you can probably tell I've done this myself)

partan

my dell inspiron does that sometimes. also, if i close the lid (which should put it to sleep) it restarts.

Strangely this only happens when i'm at home (on wireless), and not when i'm at work (on LAN).