shutdown suddenly

Today I ran xxclone to clone my spare drive and all went well. This afternoon I went to shutdown and it logged off, the shutting down window displayed and then it just sat there fat, dumb and unhappy. I can shut it down with the button, but that's to old fashion way. After reading reams of...

Hi everyone! Since my laptop have a corrupted main battery inserted, and the electricity is always suddenly cut off :cry:, all my work get lost once the electricity is cut off. As a result, I have been thinking of a way avoiding losing the Windows data and sessions done before and not saved. ...

Hi, My apologies for asking something which has been asked and answered in many variations, but none of which has helped much. I have three Win7 Home Premium x64 PCs called BoyToy (my main PC), Salsa, and Polka, all of which are wired to a D-Link DIR-655 router. I want to wake and shutdown...

Hello All, I have a ASUS Laptop with Intel I3 processer and Windows 7 Home Premium. I recently had a forced shutdown during a Windows upgrade session. Ever since then the Boot and Shutdown times have increased to over 15 minutes. I have run the msconfig unticking all but the antivirus...

Running a Gateway DX4720-03 All-of-a-sudden, now when my computer is set to sleep, it no longer sleeps but shuts down. I have it set to sleep when inactive for 10 minutes, or when I depress a specific button on my Logitec cordless optical trackman. Been doing it this way for 2 years without a...