Re: shutdown question with win95

[Randal Whittle <rwhittle@usa.net>]

At 07:13 AM 6/27/97 -0100, jpugliese wrote: 
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> When I shut down I don't get the screen that says "it's safe to shut off
> your computer" It just appears to shut down.This occurs on my ThinkPad 755cse laptop where I
> installed win95 over thet top of win3.1.Any ideas will be appreciated.This does not occur on my sesktop . Is this a ThinkPad problem or a win95 problem?
> Please email me a copy of your reply.
> JOE
> Joe Pugliese
email:jpuglies@microserve.net 
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Cool usage, by the way, of fonts & colors--but I fear that most people on the list don't have E-mail software like Eudora 3.0 that supports  it.

At any rate, what you describe is *not* a "problem" at all--it just means your ThinkPad fully supports power-saving features (APM or whatever), thus instead of saying, "You can turn off the machine now", it just does it.  Its a great feature--means you don't have to wait around to physically throw the switch.

Some desktops, mostly just newer ones, also have APM capability built-in to the BIOS, and they too will just automatically shut off rather than showing you that screen.

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Randal J. Whittle		whittle@usc.edu	(213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California