I hate Bill Gates

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vshah

Lifer
Sep 20, 2003
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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Better than my laptop. Every once in a while, for no reason I get an error saying "A service encountered an error, the system will reboot in 50 seconds" and you can do sh!t about it. You can't clear it just sit there and watch it count down

you can do sh!t about it...

open a command prompt (windows-r then type "cmd")
type (without quotes) "shutdown -a" which will abort the shutdown.

w00t

-Vivan
 

Rock Hydra

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Dec 13, 2004
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Uh, that's the error you get instead of blue screen of death. If you really prefer a blue screen, google how to change it. Other than that...whoop de doo.
 

shilala

Lifer
Oct 5, 2004
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Turn error reporting off. Microsoft already knows more than they can process.
Go outside and ride your skateboard.
/problem