Vista shutting down issue

Since a couple if weeks my Vista laptop doesn't shutdown properly anymore.
When I hit the power button to shutdown, the screen goes black and then I
get a prompt saying <my PC name> is closed, but the laptop stay "on for
ever" (lights remain on...) When I hit the power button then for a second
time, it starts the usual closing down procedure, and it really stops then.
Thanks for any advise.

Thanks for you quick replay but I get exactly the same result by doing it
the "right" way. What is b.t.w. the difference between both shutdown methods
?

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.org.invalidated> wrote in message
news:iibjkh$l6a$...
> On 02/02/2011 01:34 PM, erdna wrote:
>> Since a couple if weeks my Vista laptop doesn't shutdown properly
>> anymore. When I hit the power button to shutdown, the screen goes black
>> and then I get a prompt saying <my PC name> is closed, but the laptop
>> stay "on for ever" (lights remain on...) When I hit the power button
>> then for a second time, it starts the usual closing down procedure, and
>> it really stops then. Thanks for any advise.
>
> One should not use the lap top's power button to shut down. Use Vista to
> do that by clicking on the orb and then choosing "shut down".
>
> --
> Alias
>

On 02 Feb 2011, "erdna" <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> Thanks for you quick replay but I get exactly the same result by
> doing it the "right" way. What is b.t.w. the difference between
> both shutdown methods ?

Alias is wrong. In most cases, there is no difference. Windows has a
setting in Control Panel | Power Options that determines what happens
when you press the power button. You can set it to do nothing, sleep,
hibernate, or shut down - exactly the same choices you have when you
hit the orb.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:43:09 +0100, erdna wrote:

> Thanks for you quick replay but I get exactly the same result by doing it
> the "right" way. What is b.t.w. the difference between both shutdown methods

The main problem with shutting down by the button is that it is possible
that Windows will not finish writing buffered data to the hard drive, or
the shutdown might even happen while writing.

Either way can corrupt the drive in some manner.

That said, the NTFS file system is pretty good about not getting damaged
by doing that - but it's not a good idea, since "pretty good" is not
"perfect".

As for not shutting down the right way any more: the disk is already
corrupted, thus the bad shutdowns.

If I'm right. There are other possibilities, such as OS file corruption,
memory failures, and so on.

But once it all works again, just to be safe, please stop using the
power button to shut down :-)

> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.org.invalidated> wrote in message
> news:iibjkh$l6a$...
>> On 02/02/2011 01:34 PM, erdna wrote:
>>> Since a couple if weeks my Vista laptop doesn't shutdown properly
>>> anymore. When I hit the power button to shutdown, the screen goes black
>>> and then I get a prompt saying <my PC name> is closed, but the laptop
>>> stay "on for ever" (lights remain on...) When I hit the power button
>>> then for a second time, it starts the usual closing down procedure, and
>>> it really stops then. Thanks for any advise.
>>
>> One should not use the lap top's power button to shut down. Use Vista to
>> do that by clicking on the orb and then choosing "shut down".
>>
>> --
>> Alias
>>


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