If you have it set to shutdown in advanced power options then just press the
power button shortly. Holding the power button down longer forces the
computer to power down without a safe shut down. It's somewhat like pulling
the plug but not quite as nasty.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
But Allan,what is the way you believe is proper to push the power button to
shut down the computer if you have it set to do that in the Power/advanced
settings? This sounds confusing. You know, my power settings feature is
set for pushing the power button to shut down the computer. Yes? Okay.
But you know, if I just push and hold it for a second, no longer than the
time I hold it when booting up, nothing at all happens, at least no
immediately. I've never pushed the button only briefly then waited to see
if anything happened after a few minutes.
This is not clear to me. it sounds contradictory. Set the power setting so
that the button turns off the computer, but don't hold the power button
because to use it for this is not good for the computer. Do you see what it
is that seems contradictory to me?
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Wong" <allanwkf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
no Daniel, press and hold down the power button for 4 second will force the
computer shutdown not in proper manner and this is not
advice to do un lest no others choice.
Regards,
Allan Wong
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 05:53
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Stephen,
I just went and looked at that combo box of possibilities for what you want
to happen when you push the power button while the machine is on.
But, Stephen, shutting down is the ordinary default function to begin with.
At least it certainly was with my computer, an ordinary Dell Dimension 3000
running Win XP Home with SP 2. Pushing and holding down the power button
while the computer is running shuts it down for me, and did from the
beginning. am I to infer that your computer was set up differently at
first? If so, what happened when you pushed and held the power button while
the computer was running? Did it do one of those other options?
thanks for explaining,
Daniel
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Daniel
Ok goto settings, control panel, power options.
once in here goto the advanced tab and tab to when i press the power button
and here you will have a combo box of 5 items that you can assign to the
main power button on your machine.
hth
stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Hi,
I'm afraid I don't understand what you say, below, about the method you figured out for yourself. Going to the control panel, and a combo box, and having a button shut down? i don't get it. Could you try to rephrase this? Now you've made me really curious to find out this possibly helpful workaround. Also, by the way, I didn't know this had started with being in an emergency cituation because Jaws had stopped. Daniel
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Daniel
this thread was started by me and i had originally asked this question because jaws had stopped talking.
i found the most helpful reply to be going to power settings in the control panel and going to the advanced tab and using the combo box to have the power button to shut down for me.
hth
stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Hi,
I've been hesitating to ask this, because I'm afraid I may be missing
something obvious, and I don't wish to be insulting if there's some sort
of
serious problem I don't know about that needs solving. But I'll ask
anyway,
because I'm so curious after following this thread. First of all, how
could
it be that people are skilled enough with their computers to be
participating in a mailing list like this one, and yet don't know how to
shut down their computers even in the standard manner? I honestly don't
understand that. Aren't basic instructions provided when someone gets a
computer? You just exit your running applications and, now on the
desktop,
either put up the Start menu by pressing the left Start key, or the
Windows
key on the right, or Control Escape. Then press U for the Shut Down
command
and then choose U from the dialogue that opens, unless you want to
restart,
which means pressing R or alt R, and so forth, just as the dialogue
instructs you. Or, as some folks have said, you can just exit your
running
applications so that you're just on the desktop, and then press the good
old
Alt F4 keystroke combo that's a nearly universal way to exit something in
Windows, and then respond to that same dialogue with your choice as
described above.
either of these two methods takes far less time to execute than to describe, just a matter of a few seconds and a few keystrokes that become second nature without much effort. So, I'm wondering, why especially does anyone need a hotkey for any of this?
as I said above, this is a sincere question, not sarcastic. Can anyone explain what inspired this thread so that I can get whatever it is that I'm missing, in case it's a window onto a new, critically efficient computer operation I might profit by learning?
thanks, Daniel
----- Original Message ----- From: "harry bates" <hdbates@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Unfortunately, I deleted the message that gave the steps to shutdown the computer, but I do wish to say thanks for the one that said: If you have a windows xp system, this really works: press the windows key and then press the letter "u" twice to shutdown or windows key u and then r to restart. The shutdown command for a windows xp system is then: windows key,u,u to shutdown or windows key,u,r to restart. Thanks for providing this quicker and better way of doing the shutdown.
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