Hi Peggy, I have. What I did to fix it was to go in to power management and I set it up so that it doesn't shut off unless I shut it down. It used to shut down by itself. Now it doesn't do that. Pastor Gil
From: Peggy Kern Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:39 PM To: GW Subject: Windows 7 sensitive to shutdowns? Hi, all. I really love my Windows 7 machine, but it seems to be more sensitive to forced shutdowns, and to shutdowns in general, than any of my XP machines ever were. This isn't an everyday thing, thank God, but there have been a few times when booting up, that I was told Windows had an unexpected shutdown and couldn't start, and did I want it to look for a previous restore point for starting. Today, my husband had logged me off and gone into his profile, then he went back to the logon screen and I logged back onto my profile. Window-Eyes said a couple words, then went silent. I can't remember now if I held in the power button to force a shutdown, or if I brought up the start menu, arrowed once and hit enter to shut down. The computer shut down, and when I turned it back on, I could hear the disk start to move and get to a certain point, then it would restart. It kept doing this over and over. Finally my husband came in and said there was a dialog about an improper shut down, whether because of a problem or some other reason, and to click here if I wanted to start in safe mode or here if I wanted to start normally. Of course, not having speech, I didn't know why it was restarting or what to do about it. I had tried to hit enter at one point when it seemed to have stopped moving, and that made things move again. My husband said "start normally" was highlighted, so perhaps I just needed to hit enter again? I'm just wondering if anyone else who has Windows 7 has noticed how sensitive it is to shutdowns, and if you've found a way as a blind person to get it up and talking again if there isn't a sighted person readily available. Peggy If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
