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Hi,

when i press the power button my screen goes blank then reappears about 5 seconds later. I want this button to be able to turn my system off completely. I have gone into power options and defined the power button to shut down but it does not happen.

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong ?

The start menu shutdown/sleep button and the shutdown, restart options have been removed from the start menu, how do i fix it?

Pressing the power button or manually forcing sleep mode from the shutdown menu doesn't work. Monitor powers off then a few seconds later it's back up. The tower never shut off. I wandered around the bios trying to find a setting.

I recently got Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1405). Since then, it has been booting up pretty slowly, but it takes even longer to restart/shutdown. When I click the shutdown button, it doesn't register right away, until I move the mouse around a few times or click on shutdown/restart again. (then it takes even longer to actually shut down). It's really annoying, and I would like to know if there is a way to speed the process up. Thanks so much! Also, I am not very technically inclined, so if possible, please answer in the most straight-forward, simple way.

I recently got Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1405). Since then, it has been booting up pretty slowly, but it takes even longer to restart/shutdown. When I click the shutdown button, it doesn't register right away, until I move the mouse around a few times or click on shutdown/restart again. (then it takes even longer to actually shut down). It's really annoying, and I would like to know if there is a way to speed the process up. Thanks so much! Also, I am not very technically inclined, so if possible, please answer in the most straight-forward, simple way.