Re: hotkey for shutdown?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:00:05 -0700
Stephen,
thank you. that's the answer I was hoping to hear, which is similar to what
Bobcat has explained.
I confess that I've held the button longer (not the ten seconds someone
mentioned but the four seconds Allan Wong mentioned), and I knew it wasn't
considered advisable because it doesn't perform the correct forced but
orderly shutdown procedure. But I didn't know that a shorter button press
was supposed to initiate a more orderly shutdown. If the setting is
correct, of course, which mine was, already. It didn't seem to do anything
unless I held it a while.
This thread has become helpful and instructive for me, despite some initial
miscommunication problems, and I'm appreciative that people are taking the
time and making the effort to express themselves as clearly as possible on
the topic. Thanks to all, except for the flamer.
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
ok daniel
i have an e machine pc and when i first went into the power settings i found
the power button to be set up to do nothing.
as far as shutting down is concerned all i do is press the main power button
for less than a second and it starts the shut down sequence.
i find this to be very very useful when jaws has crashed and no other way is
available to restart my machine.
hth.
stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:53 PM
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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