AARRRGHH!

[Evan Russell]

Ok, I have posted these before, and I'm going to put them
together to see if anyone can help me?

I have two problems that seemed to pop up at once.

I'm running XP Home on a Sony VAIO RX-550.

1) My computer will not shut down. If I select Standby,
it works fine, but Restart and Shutdown will not work. It
seems the only way to turn my machine off is to use the
power button and do a "hard" shutdown. This results in
scanning of the disk at bootup. Also doing updates and
such that ask you to "restart your computer now?" will
not shut it down either. Any help please?

2) System resore will not work. Before it used to go
through all the steps and at the very end would tell me
that it could not be restored and no changes were made.
It did not matter what restore point I chose. I took some
advice from an earlier post, and not it does nothing. I
click the resore button, and the computer does nothing. I
was hoping to use restore to fix the other problem, until
I realized that did not work.
Any help?

Thank you for any assistance!

Evan Russell

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Evan,

1) See if the troubleshooters from MVP Jim Eshelman help:
http://aumha.org/a/shtdwnxp.htm

2) Once SR is munged, you need to kick start it. Chances are you will not be
able to recover any previously created restore points. Go to the control
panel/system/SR tab and disable it on all drives. Restart the system, then
reenable it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Evan Russell" > wrote in message
...
>
> Ok, I have posted these before, and I'm going to put them
> together to see if anyone can help me?
>
> I have two problems that seemed to pop up at once.
>
> I'm running XP Home on a Sony VAIO RX-550.
>
> 1) My computer will not shut down. If I select Standby,
> it works fine, but Restart and Shutdown will not work. It
> seems the only way to turn my machine off is to use the
> power button and do a "hard" shutdown. This results in
> scanning of the disk at bootup. Also doing updates and
> such that ask you to "restart your computer now?" will
> not shut it down either. Any help please?
>
> 2) System resore will not work. Before it used to go
> through all the steps and at the very end would tell me
> that it could not be restored and no changes were made.
> It did not matter what restore point I chose. I took some
> advice from an earlier post, and not it does nothing. I
> click the resore button, and the computer does nothing. I
> was hoping to use restore to fix the other problem, until
> I realized that did not work.
> Any help?
>
> Thank you for any assistance!
>
> Evan Russell

[Eddie]

"Evan Russell" > wrote in message >...
> Ok, I have posted these before, and I'm going to put them
> together to see if anyone can help me?
> [...]
> Thank you for any assistance!
>
> Evan Russell


You'll probably get more responses at http://www.VaioVillage.com ;)

Cheers
Eddie