Hi Gianluca, Check in your Control Panel, Power Options> Advanced There is a setting there to tell Windows what you want it to do when you press the power button. Or you can click on the Windows key then the letter U On the next window U again I hope this helps Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www.mwn.ca/ UPDATED 30/10/03 See my Anti-Virus pages UPDATED 31/10/03 <http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/mikes_virus_page.htm> <virusinfo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> A Technical Support Alliance Charter Member *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 31/10/2003 at 1:58 PM Tiburselli, Gianluca {PGIE~Basel} wrote: Greetings: I have the following problem: When I shutdown my pc, it restart automtically, instead of to switch it off. Is there an option, which i can disable this restart. I still looked in the BIOS and i did not finde somthing that could help me. Thanks for your help. G. Tiburselli For a web-based membership management utility and information on list policies, please see http://nibec.com/24hoursupport/ To unsubscribe, send a blank email to 24hoursupport-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" (without quotes) in the subject.