Re: PC Sometimes Won't Shut DownCompletely
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George McCoy <slr1bpz@...>
I don’t think so. The way the dialog is worded, I believe the force
shutdown button forces the background program or programs to close and then
proceeds with a normal shutdown. When I did the alt f thing with a sighted
observer, she reported that when I pressed the power button to restart the
computer, the boot up process appeared to be normal. When the power button
is pressed and held down, you get a dialog about windows having not been closed
properly with various options in a menu when you restart.
George
From: Gerald Levy
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] PC Sometimes Won't Shut
DownCompletely Is pressing Alt-F to force a shut down the same as pressing and holding the
power button?
Gerald
From: George McCoy
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] PC Sometimes Won't Shut
DownCompletely Sometimes, a program does not shut down thus hanging the whole shutdown
process. That program is rarely the screen reader. So, the screen
reader shuts down and then a message appears saying that windows is waiting on
one or more background programs to close. We don’t get the message because
the screen reader has already shut down. There is a button in that dialog
labeled force shutdown. The accelerator key for that button is alt
f.
If you have waited a decent interval, say, a minute or minute and a half
and the computer has not shut down, try pressing alt f to force an unresponsive
program or process to shut down. It doesn’t always work but it does work a
surprisingly large number of times.
Hth,
George
From: Pamela Dominguez
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] PC Sometimes Won't Shut
DownCompletely I can’t explain it, but I can tell you that this has happened to both my
desktop computers I have had that had versions of windows on them. I
mention that because my other desktop that had dos on it didn’t have a way to
shut it off automatically like that. I had to flip a switch. But
both computers that had shut off as a part of the shut down, it sometimes does
that, where it exits windows and just sits there on. Occasionally, I have
walked away and not paid attention, assuming that it has shut all the way off,
and come back later, only to find out that it is still on. Hopefully,
somebody can enlighten us both. Pam.
From: Gerald Levy
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 6:35 AM
Subject: [TechTalk] PC Sometimes Won't Shut
DownCompletely Most of the time, when I press Alt-F4 from the desktop of my Windows 7 PC
and click okay on the shut down option, it will exit Windows and shut down
normally and the power will shut off. But once in a while, when I click on
okay for the shut down option, I hear the exit Windows sound, but the power does
not shut off. The internal cooling fan continues to run, and the tray for
the DVD/CD drive opens and closes when I press the eject button, which means
that although the PC has exited Windows, the power remains on. When this
happens, I have to press and hold the power button on the front panel for a few
seconds to insure that the PC completely shuts down and the power shuts
off. Can anyone explain why my PC will occasionally refuse to shut down
completely when I activate the shut down option? Thanks.
Gerald
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