On my laptop, I just pull the battery out. That works. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Lawlor" <dlawlor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: Re: former power status > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:18:58PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote: > > It's a dual boot, and I think I was in windows. Windows has lots of > > shutdown problems. My winblows laptop won't even shoutdown. > I find when one has shutdown problems in winblows the answer is to hold > in the power button until the system shutts down. Takes about 6 seconds > on my Dell. > > Doug > > > -- > Doug Lawlor <dlawlor at roadrunner.nf.net> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >