PC not powering off on shutdown

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I have had my PC for a couple of years now (it came with
XP pre-installed) and have had no problems as far as
powering off goes, until now.

Last week, I installed a graphics tablet, and now my PC
won't power off when shutting down. It just sits there
with 'Windows is shutting down' on the screen. I have to
hold the power button in to turn it off. I have tried
looking at the APM settings on 'Power Options' in the
control panel, but there is no APM tab.

Of course, the Graphics tablet could be a red herring, as
my virus checker picked up a trojan horse virus which I
got rid of, and spybot, which I just installed, has picked
up loads of spyware.

Should I uninstall the hardware or restore the system ?
How can I get the APM tab ?

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"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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> /Timbo/ said:
>
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> http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
> --
> For most XP answers and tweaks...
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
> http://dougknox.com http://aumha.org
> http://support.microsoft.com

I too am having problems shutting down.

I have tried all the suggestions on the sites above and it still wont
shutdown. It just reboots back to the welcome screen.

I have set auto recovery off, bought an updated bios, tried shutdown.exe,
shutntdown, clean installed and made sure it loads as an "ACPI" PC, turned
all power settings on/off, defaulted the bios, etc, etc ad infinitum!

Right now, I am at a loss as to what I can do. If anyone has an idea, no
matter how far out, weird or just plain stupid I am willing to try it.

Thanks.

Greg.