Vista keeps starting my computer by itself...

[T9D]

Is there some setting that makes Vista just decide to turn on my computer by it self? I turn it off (completely)..... leave the house..... come back and my PC has turned itself on at some point while I was gone. Only started doing this with Vista. I dont even understand how it could do that if it's totally turned off. But I dont know is there some "turn on PC upon network signal" or some wierd thing like that? It's just bizzare.

 

[theMan]

most likely its a setting in the bios, just look under boot settings. you must have accidentally turned it on during vista installation.

 

[InlineFive]

The default action for the "Shutdown" button on the start menu is now Sleep instead of Shutdown. On desktop systems this has a habit of waking the computer when there is network traffic, or the table gets bumped (shaking the mouse), etc.