Even shutdown is broken in Vista?!?!?!

Been a while since I brought up one of the myriad of Vista problems I've run
into, but this one is so elementary, "WTF" has become almost like a comma in
my speech. Basically, I hit the Start button, and hit the Shutdown button
(the one that looks like the power icon on electronics). Whereas Vista used
to bring up a list of applications running and ask if I'd like to shut down
anyway, all I get is the screen dims to black and after less than a second,
it goes back to my normal desktop as if nothing had happened. There is no
event indicating a problem in the Event Log, and Vista isn't doing squat
outside briefly dimming the screen, so what the hell gives? If there was a
problem with the system, why isn't Vista reporting it? There should either be
an event logged or a <gasp> dialog box telling me what's happening, but it's
just the same half-assed functional nothing that I'm getting used to yet
oh-so-tired of in Vista. That being absent, I'm left with searching Usenet,
and so far, all I've seen on the topic pertains to Vista doing stuff like
restarting instead of shutting down and other stuff indicative of Vista doing
SOMETHING.

BTW: This is attempt number 4 at posting this because in addition to the
aforementioned being broken, Outlook Express (I call it like I see it, and
whatever MS is calling now it is just as terrible as OE was and now is)
decided that it can't sign into Communities so stuck itself in a damn
infinite loop of a message box telling me it can't sign in, so apologies if
this message shows up multiple times...I can't tell if it posted it or not.
So in summary, they can't be bothered to display a message box when the
system fails to respond to a shutdown request, but it can't sign into its own
ID service, it spins off into an INFINITE LOOP. I'm trying to recall the
last time I've even seen an infinite loop in production code...seriously.

If you press the little arrow on the right of that button and select shut
down, what happens?



"Keith P" <> wrote in message
news:6A58FDFC-3FBE-41D7-910C-...
> Been a while since I brought up one of the myriad of Vista problems I've
> run
> into, but this one is so elementary, "WTF" has become almost like a comma
> in
> my speech. Basically, I hit the Start button, and hit the Shutdown button
> (the one that looks like the power icon on electronics). Whereas Vista
> used
> to bring up a list of applications running and ask if I'd like to shut
> down
> anyway, all I get is the screen dims to black and after less than a
> second,
> it goes back to my normal desktop as if nothing had happened. There is no
> event indicating a problem in the Event Log, and Vista isn't doing squat
> outside briefly dimming the screen, so what the hell gives? If there was a
> problem with the system, why isn't Vista reporting it? There should either
> be
> an event logged or a <gasp> dialog box telling me what's happening, but
> it's
> just the same half-assed functional nothing that I'm getting used to yet
> oh-so-tired of in Vista. That being absent, I'm left with searching
> Usenet,
> and so far, all I've seen on the topic pertains to Vista doing stuff like
> restarting instead of shutting down and other stuff indicative of Vista
> doing
> SOMETHING.
>
> BTW: This is attempt number 4 at posting this because in addition to the
> aforementioned being broken, Outlook Express (I call it like I see it, and
> whatever MS is calling now it is just as terrible as OE was and now is)
> decided that it can't sign into Communities so stuck itself in a damn
> infinite loop of a message box telling me it can't sign in, so apologies
> if
> this message shows up multiple times...I can't tell if it posted it or
> not.
> So in summary, they can't be bothered to display a message box when the
> system fails to respond to a shutdown request, but it can't sign into its
> own
> ID service, it spins off into an INFINITE LOOP. I'm trying to recall the
> last time I've even seen an infinite loop in production code...seriously.
>
>

>
My laptop fails to shutdown any further than the "shutting down" screen
about 25% of the time. And Outlook? Ugh. try Thunderbird.

Dave

Keith,

By default (at least on my Vista Home Premium. The button you reference is
set to send the computer to sleep, not shutdown.
If you hover the cursor over the button what does it say?
(mine says: Saves your session and puts your computer in a low-power state
so that you can quickly resume working).

Michael


"Keith P" <> wrote in message
news:6A58FDFC-3FBE-41D7-910C-...
> Been a while since I brought up one of the myriad of Vista problems I've
> run
> into, but this one is so elementary, "WTF" has become almost like a comma
> in
> my speech. Basically, I hit the Start button, and hit the Shutdown button
> (the one that looks like the power icon on electronics). Whereas Vista
> used
> to bring up a list of applications running and ask if I'd like to shut
> down
> anyway, all I get is the screen dims to black and after less than a
> second,
> it goes back to my normal desktop as if nothing had happened. There is no
> event indicating a problem in the Event Log, and Vista isn't doing squat
> outside briefly dimming the screen, so what the hell gives? If there was a
> problem with the system, why isn't Vista reporting it? There should either
> be
> an event logged or a <gasp> dialog box telling me what's happening, but
> it's
> just the same half-assed functional nothing that I'm getting used to yet
> oh-so-tired of in Vista. That being absent, I'm left with searching
> Usenet,
> and so far, all I've seen on the topic pertains to Vista doing stuff like
> restarting instead of shutting down and other stuff indicative of Vista
> doing
> SOMETHING.
>
> BTW: This is attempt number 4 at posting this because in addition to the
> aforementioned being broken, Outlook Express (I call it like I see it, and
> whatever MS is calling now it is just as terrible as OE was and now is)
> decided that it can't sign into Communities so stuck itself in a damn
> infinite loop of a message box telling me it can't sign in, so apologies
> if
> this message shows up multiple times...I can't tell if it posted it or
> not.
> So in summary, they can't be bothered to display a message box when the
> system fails to respond to a shutdown request, but it can't sign into its
> own
> ID service, it spins off into an INFINITE LOOP. I'm trying to recall the
> last time I've even seen an infinite loop in production code...seriously.
>
>

My vista restarts instead of shutting down. I am not able to go into the BIOS
to check the power management options. I did system restore but nothing has
changed.