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Old 2007-03-25, 08:21   Link #43
toru310
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Originally Posted by Jinto Lin View Post
Well, there may be many logical explanations. But you problem description is very vague. So giving a specific answer is quiet hard.
Again your best chance to uncover the cause for the failures, is to look up the error in the event viewer.
Do you have antivirus software installed? You could test if you got infected with a virus.

When you shut the PC down, certain things are written back from (RAM) memory to the system files. E.g. the registry or other intermediately RAM cached data. Should erros occur in this crucial period of the system shutdown, then things like the registry can be severely damaged. Windows tries to restore such files with older backups in the next startup (the windows restore files thing). However, the backup files are likely out of date. So there will be very likely a sever rollback of the system (means many changes, made in several windows sessions, can be lost).
When Windows shuts down, and a blue screen of death occurs, then it will restart instead of finalising the shut down. The behaviour triggered by the BSOD will always override your normal system behaviour (even when shutting down).
Do you think updating windows is a good thing for the problem?
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