Cancelling preset windows shutdown

googler

If it's only when you startup the machine, it has to be something in the startup folder, so follow prev poster's advice for msconfig, startup

pimento

get a password.

CrazyRatLady_2

googler wrote: »

OK, according to this page, that command is available from a command prompt in Windoze 7 - is this your Op Sys? If not, what OS are you running?

Absolutely no idea :S

CrazyRatLady_2

pimento wrote: »

get a password.

I've got one! Passwords aren't hard to get around.

CrazyRatLady_2

googler wrote: »

If it's only when you startup the machine, it has to be something in the startup folder, so follow prev poster's advice for msconfig, startup

I have done, but I don't know what I'm looking for. There is alot in the start up folder and I can't copy and paste it for someone to tell me if one of them is the route cause.

CrazyRatLady_2

Here's a screen shot if this means anything to anyone

jayme1

do you use any desktop shortcut icons? eg for firefox/internet explorer? (edit you do according to the screenshot, anything with the arrow symbol (eg the one on skype and booksmart) is a shortcut check them all)

if you do right click on one and select 'Properties' under the 'Shortcut' Tab there is a section called 'Target' see what is written in that box, if it has anything to do with shutdown (specifically: shutdown -s (and the text that comes up when just about to shutdown))
repeat for each shortcut icon on the desktop (and if need be the whole system (though it will be something you normally click on))

when you find the one with the shutdown text in the target box, that is the shortcut you want to delete.

you will then have to recreate the shortcut by going to Start> all programs, find the program and right click on it select Send To and select Desktop (create shortcut)

that should stop the auto shutdown (if that's the way he did it)

larkim

How about programmes in the "startup" folder - Start > All Programs > Startup (i.e. in your start menu, the one you open when you click the round thing in the bottom left hand corner of the screen)?

If its a programme that is auto-starting it has to be either:-
- in the "startup" folder
- evident in the msconfig startup items
- started manually by you when you click on an icon

If you just start the PC, and do nothing else at all (no clicking, nothing) does the auto-shutdown start? If so, that rules out the third option in my list.

Matt

CrazyRatLady_2

larkim wrote: »

How about programmes in the "startup" folder - Start > All Programs > Startup (i.e. in your start menu, the one you open when you click the round thing in the bottom left hand corner of the screen)?

If its a programme that is auto-starting it has to be either:-
- in the "startup" folder
- evident in the msconfig startup items
- started manually by you when you click on an icon

If you just start the PC, and do nothing else at all (no clicking, nothing) does the auto-shutdown start? If so, that rules out the third option in my list.

Matt

Ah ha! I've found it - thank you, you are a genius! It's in the start up folder and he's called it 'del'. It is one of the ones on the config menu that I wasn't sure what it was (the first one I highlighted in the screen dump) - I've disabled it from there so should that be the end of it now?

googler

CrazyRatLady wrote: »

Absolutely no idea :S

You truly have no idea what Operating System your laptop is running?

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

???