I use XP, and instead of arrowing through selections, I use the letters associated with their function to select U for shut down, S for Stand By etc. Bill White billwhite92701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: L Fairman To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 7:59 AM Subject: RE: Shutting down problem! I've found that sometimes when preparing to close the laptop, and arrowing among the choices -- Sleep / ShutDown / ReStart -- JAWS occasionally speaks a different label than the currently selected choice. So, I arrow back and forth a time or two before hitting enter to confirm which selection is going to be activated. LuRetta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 2:01 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Shutting down problem! Dave, This doesn't answer Brandon's question, as he has just explained, but here's something I do when XP won't close down. I assume there's an equivalent procedure in Windows 7. I'm sure you've seen the message to the effect that if you close a program now, you may lose all your data. One choice you're given is to close anyway, which you do by pressing alt-e. Sometimes when my computer won't shut down, I'm given no indication why. Even though the choices aren't shown on the screen, I'll press alt-e. It works almost every time. I believe Outlook 2003 is the culprit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Farfar Carlson Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 4:32 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Shutting down problem! Brandon, No idea what to suggest. It may be that there is an application running or a process running that does not respond to the normal shutdown command and either continues to run or forces a complete shutoff. I've cooked my laptop more than once in my backpack when I thought it had shut down, but was still running. They get extremely hot if they don't have ventilation. I always check now at the air vents to make sure there is nothing running before putting into the backpack. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Brandon Keith To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 13:16 Subject: Re: Shutting down problem! I have that happen to me as well. It's very odd... Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: Yadiel Sotomayor Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 1:11 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Shutting down problem! Now that is weird. It used to happen to me with win XP. I used to it shutdown button to turn my computer off and for some weird reason my computer turned itself on back again. Never could find a solution though. From: Brandon Keith Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 5:06 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Shutting down problem! I tried that, but every few times when I'd click hibernate it would restart rather than hibernate. Thanks, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: Farfar Carlson Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 12:15 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Shutting down problem! Brandon, I recommend you start using standby or hibernate mode before closing the cover. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Brandon Keith To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:47 Subject: Shutting down problem! Hello, I'm not sure what's going on: About 1 out of every 5 times I close my laptop it shuts down. I'm not sure if windows is installing an update or what, but it gets super super annoying, especially when I have 5 or 6 programs up at once and I need to restart them all. And because I'm in school I have to close my lap-top at least 5 times a day. This has always happened and I'm not sure how to fix it. I changed the option to hibernate when the lid gets shut rather than go to sleep, but that only decreased the shutting down from 1 every 3 times to 1 every 5 times and increased the time I need to wait for my computer to start up. I'm not sure if there is something that says it will shut down when I close my lid or what? Any help would be really appreciated! Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5674 (20101204) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5674 (20101204) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com