Power down

[Ian]

Updated XP Home with all critical patches but when I
shutdown my PC will no longer automatically turn itself
off. It simply show the "safe to power off" screen, this
is annoying! Any ideas?

Cheers Ian

PS I have not modified my bios!

[dev]

Ian said:

> Updated XP Home with all critical patches but when I
> shutdown my PC will no longer automatically turn itself
> off. It simply show the "safe to power off" screen, this
> is annoying! Any ideas?

There is extensive shutdown info here...
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm