interesting question about shutting down on windows machines

[dr wily]

I just recently installed xp and when i shut down it takes forever, just sits there, not doing anything like accessing the harddrive for like a good 20 seconds.. any reasons?

but thats not the major question

It stays at the "its now safe to turn off your computer" screen and i have to power down manually now!
I havent had to do that since the first runs of windows 95 on my 200mx box 6 years ago.. i reboot into win98 and it shuts down in a matter of seconds.

Why does it do this and is there a setting to change it? Especially the manual power off.
Thanks guys!

 

[dr wily]

anyone?

 

[Colt45]

ack.. control panel --> power options. check "enable APM" (or something similar)

if thats not there or doesnt work you probably installed windows with ACPI disabled, and your HAL is fux0red.

 

[AndyHui]

Please read the FAQ: ACPI vs APM. The solution to your problem is at the bottom of this FAQ.

 

[dr wily]

thanks! i was playing around with the settings and i saw that power management thingy

 

[tsnyder]

were you playing around with the settings before or after you had this problem? =)

 

[TheWart]

wow i didnt know you could do APM without ACPI! cool.