-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fw: Re: Password.

In a message dated 8/30/03 6:04:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
percy10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> 
>     Hi Glo.    Thanks for the info .   What I do when I have a freeze up or
> the computer is acting up ,  I press the on /off button on the computer and
> hold it in for 7 seconds, the screen goes black , I then release the button
> and wait one minute then press the on/off button again to switch the
> computer on again and wait till it loads, it usually runs Scan Disc
> automatically and every thing usually goes back to normal.   I guess that is
> a Cold Boot ,  huh  ??     Lionel.
> 

No...... goto Start/Shutdown/Shutdown.  That way, Windows goes through it's 
entire closing routine and the computer turns itself off.

When you start up and get Scandisk, you know that Windows did not shutdown 
appropriately.

mjh

MJH


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