restart causes shutdown

[Scott]

When I click "restart" (from "turn off computer") the PC shutsdown. It used
to restart. What wrong?

[Rock]

"Scott" wrote

> When I click "restart" (from "turn off computer") the PC shutsdown. It
> used
> to restart. What wrong?

Have you tried a system restore to a time right before the problem stated?
What changes were made to the system between the time it worked ok, and when
the problem first manifested itself? What software/hardware changes were
made? Any driver updates through windows update or other means?

Here is one possibility: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/251/

From start | run, type in regedit, click ok. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Is there a Value name of PowerdownAfterShutdown and if so what is it set to,
0 or 1? If 1 change it to 0.

Google groups search for this problem:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=computer%20shuts%20down%20instead%20of%20restart %20xp&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg


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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

[Aleksey Tkachenko]

"Scott" > wrote in message ...
> When I click "restart" (from "turn off computer") the PC shutsdown. It used
> to restart. What wrong?

Have got virus attack recently, have the same thing.

Aleksey.